Professionalism Quotes

One theme that runs through many [job hunting books] is just plain harmful: the advice to "just be yourself." Wrong. Remember that first day on your first job, when you went to get your first cup of coffee? You found the coffee machine, and there, stuck on the wall behind it, was a handwritten sign re

Professionals never guess—they make it their business to know their business.

Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-oriented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Sheryl Sandberg

To be a professional you have to act like one as well..

Alcurtis Turner

[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing t

David Halberstam

It seems shelving is an art, like everything else. I decide to do it exceptionally well.

Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them.

Plato

For your own professionalism, reputation & appearance, it really is ok to NOT post every #video, picture, event or show on social media.On the contrary, holding back, waiting or not posting certain things all together can help much more than hurt.

People always think it's unprofessional if your appearance doesn't match your biological sex. What does my gender have to do with my skills?

Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.

You can be an expert on anything if you just use logic.

Professionalism is a key to Perfectionism…

Your leadership responsibilities are the real golden stripes

Some think that they are incredible but are actually un-credible. Do you work, master your craft...

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Until you take your profession as passion, each and every activity looks as a headache

A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

The media "could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.

Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn't be overlooked.

The scariest, ugliest stories about in-home nursing usually are the result of nurses demonstrating a lack of professionalism, bad morals or a disregard for the child for whom they are providing care.

Charisse Montgomery

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.

John Taliaferro

What is more, sir," his lordship went on, "I believe I have a good idea of what you mean by 'professionalism.' It appears to mean getting one's way by cheating and manipulating. It appears to mean serving the dictates of greed and advantage rather than those of goodness and the desire to see justice prevail in the world. If that is the 'professionalism' you refer to, sir, I don't care much for it and have no wish to acquire it.

You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.

Jonathan Franzen

The older you get the more you realize that just because someone has an important job doesn't necessarily mean that they do it responsibly, or are even good at it. There are many 'D' students running around with high social status gained from their seemingly important positions. Integrity and proficiency are not a given. These qualities can only be proven over time.

It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.

High-quality professions look decently, think profoundly, and act thoughtfully.

Pearl Zhu

One-year enlistment had proven problematic since the troops were scheduled to rotate out of the army just when they had begun to internalize the discipline of military service and became reliable soldiers.

Joseph J. Ellis

To march over dead man, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride.

Nathanael Greene

Many or few alternatives can be at hand. A wise and skilful choice acts from a sincere effort. Solutions and results come from cooperation, hard work and efficiency. With high intention matched with a flexible, patient heart and proficient action gets best quality and value. As for the restless grumbles raving from unconsciousness of complexity of matters, best be brushed off ducking out wisely from discourtesies.

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

They looked more like day laborers than seamen.

Since you cannot always carry and display your diploma. Kindly act like you have one. Professionalism. Include that to your dictionary.

Joshua De Vera Bautista

I think it's best to keep the controversy on the pages and not in our relationships.

Let's get one thing clear, there may be few or many successful people in your profession, but there is going to be only one hero in that profession.

Treat your clients with high professionalism and they will no more negotiate with you.

Your money is just a condition to get my business, your professionalism is the price.

In business 'professionalism' is not a tactic but a moral value.

They copied my product, they copied my strategies yet they failed miserably in the business, because they couldn't copy my professionalism.

World can run without money and currencies but not without business and trade.

Itis our ability to have an insight into people thatgives us the power to predict the future.

In most work situations, there is usually more to see than what meets the eyes. A lot happens just beneath the surface.

A person’s true nature, true self, cannot change with situations.

Make sure the job you select complements your personal life the best.

We tend to seek closure and completeness.

Your personal and professional lives will have to go hand in hand and will have influence on each other.

Business is ultimately about people and we can't be effective in business without having some insight into people.

Professional men run the business started by the courageous men.

When passion blends with profession it turns into a masterpiece...

Ramana Pemmaraju

Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt

John Taliaferro

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.

Alain de Botton

Art is the medium through which you express the inexpressible, convey the unconveyable, transporting the audience in different realms of existence erasing their mental identities. Any effort by the artist to make an personal identity is detrimental in an artistic sense. Be Wiser, leave no residue, dissolve in ART!

Ramana Pemmaraju

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

Steven Pressfield

A leader only follows a better leader than himself.

MD. Muhtashimur Rahman

Politics look very simple to the outsider whether he is a businessman or a soldier – it is only when you get into it that all the angles and hard work become apparent. James Forrestal

David Pietrusza

Professionalism shouldn't be defined by a persons paycheck, role or title. It should be defined by a persons work ethic

All of the administrative methods used in professional circles- confidentiality, whatever else is in vogue- are just tools. Tools that governing bodies can deploy, under the guise of fairness. Some of the most corrupt organisations I have worked with have the most finely developed guidelines that they work to. These guidelines gives them more rope to hang their victims.

Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? “I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open.” The crowd cheers.

Tina Fey

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? “I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open.” The crowd cheers.

Tina Fey

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