Dreams don’t work unless you do! Get ready to go after your dreams, follow your passions or simply push through the week with these hard work quotes. Scrolling through these sayings will give you a much needed daily dose of motivation!
Hard Work Quotes To Motivate You
1. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
2. “Without labor, nothing prospers.” – Sophocles
3. “Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.” – Pat Riley
4. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pele
5. “If you love your work, you’ll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you – like a fever. ” – Sam Walton
6. “All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.” – Calvin Coolidge
7. “Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but without it, you don’t have a chance.” – Alex Rodriguez
8. “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
9. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
10. “I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.” – Margaret Thatcher
11. “Work your ass off. There is no magic pill.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
12. “Work and you’ll get what you need; work harder and you’ll get what you want.” – Prabakaran Thirumalai
13. “Sometimes there’s not a better way. Sometimes there’s only the hard way.” – Mary E. Pearson
14. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work.” – Stephen King
15. “Hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but improves its chances.” – B. J. Gupta
16. “Expecting success without hard work is like asking someone else to work out at the gym for you.”
17. “The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.” – Vince Lombardi
18. “A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.” – Marge Piercy
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Powerful Quotes For Hard Workers
19. “Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.” – Iain Duncan Smith
20. “The only way to the top is by persistent, intelligent, hard work.” – A. T. Mercier
21. “No matter how hard you work, someone else is working harder.” – Elon Musk
22. “Men die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease. They do not die of hard work” – David Ogilvy
23. “There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.” – Derek Jeter
24. “Sometimes, you have to give up. Sometimes, knowing when to give up, when to try something else, is genius. Giving up doesn’t mean stopping. Don’t ever stop.” – Phil Knight
25. “Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” – George Halas
26. “I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.” – Larry Bird
27. “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
28. “Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.” – Augusta F. Kantra
29. “Humans need air to survive; success needs hard work.”
30. “Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” – Sam Ewing
31. “Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.” – Dwayne Johnson
32. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich
33. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn
34. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
Best Hard Work Quotes
35. “Hard work compounds like interest, and the earlier you do it, the more time you have for the benefits to pay off.” – Sam Altman
36. “A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” – Colin Powell
37. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi
38. “It’s not about money or connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.” – Mark Cuban
39. “If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” – Michelangelo
40. “Be like a duck, paddling and working hard in the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling, calm face.” – Manoj Arora
41. “Have a dream. Have a passion. Know that there’s no such thing as an overnight success.” – Christiane Amanpour
42. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill
43. “All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.” – Eric Thomas
44. “For the tree of success to grow, first, you need to plant the seeds of hard work.”
45. “Success isn’t owned. It’s leased, and rent is due every day.” – J. J. Watt
46. “The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day” – Wayne Gretzky
47. “Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.” – Zig Ziglar
48. “The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.” – Steven Pressfield
49. “Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” – Thomas Edison
50. “I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.” – Serena Williams
51. “Work hard to get paid for your mind, not your time.” – Vala Afshar
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