81 Quotes About Professionalism

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well. Agatha Christie

My view of the charity world is that compared with business, there is too much talk, way too many meetings and expert panels and blue-ribbon commissions, and not enough action. Or as an Australian friend of mine once opined: "Sometimes you just have to have a go and get on with it, mate! ". John Wood

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

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. Guy Mankowski

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

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

A leader only follows a better leader than himself. MD. Muhtashimur Rahman

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

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

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

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

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

Professional men run the business started by the courageous men. Amit Kalantri

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

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

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

We tend to seek closure and completeness. Abhishek Ratna

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

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

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

Gossip: a weed watered by wayward words. Soul Dancer

My brothers and sisters prayers and faith in God does not negate professionalism and dignity of labour. Sunday Adelaja

There are three qualities that make someone a true professional. These are the ability to work unsupervised, the ability to certify the completion of a job or task and, finally, the ability to behave with integrity at all times. Subroto Bagchi

Insurance business is about promises and trust. It is about delivering to the customer in times of need and if this cannot be imbibed in a professional neither him nor the industry will succeed. Tapan Singhel

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

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

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

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

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

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. Amit Kalantri

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

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

Skills or professionalism is another factor of growth Sunday Adelaja

They looked more like day laborers than seamen. Erik Larson

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

Be a pro at what you do. No one shows-up to meetings of the Unsuccessful Skydivers Club. Ryan Lilly

If you were a real professional, you'd build a bridge and get over it. Jacqueline E. Smith

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. Angelica Hopes

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

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

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

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. Unknown

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

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. Kazuo Ishiguro

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

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

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

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

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

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

Until you take your profession as passion, each and every activity looks as a headache Vignesh S.V.

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

Your leadership responsibilities are the real golden stripes V.S. Parani

Professionalism is a key to Perfectionism… Yogesh Chauhan

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

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. C.s. Lewis

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? Marcel Weyers

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. Loren Weisman

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

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

[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

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

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

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 Martin Yate

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed. John Updike

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism. Unknown

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top. Chili Davis