Quotes On Hard Work To Motivate You
Here are the top 60 hard work quotes that will motivate you.
1. “Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.” ― Henry Ford
2. “Work harder than you think you did yesterday.” ― Alex Elle
3. “The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.” ― Proverbs 13:4, ESV
4. “If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.” ― Jim Rohn
5. “We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.” ― Ariana Huffington
6. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” ― Dale Carnegie
7. “I learned the value of hard work by working hard.” ― Margaret Mead
8. “Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.” ― Malcolm Gladwell
9. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston S. Churchill
10. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” ― Steve Jobs
11. “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” ― Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
12. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” ― Newt Gingrich
13. “Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard.” ― Tim Notke
14. “I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go about it, and make trial after trial until it comes.” ― Thomas Edison
15. “Men die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease. They do not die of hard work.” ― David Ogilvy
16. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” ― Vince Lombardi
17. “Men die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease. They do not die of hard work.” ― David Ogilvy
18. “Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.” ― Patrick Suskind
19. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work.” ― Stephen King
20. “No matter how hard you work, someone else is working harder.” ― Elon Musk
21. “It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.” ― Roger Staubach
22. “People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.” ― Frederick Douglass
23. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” ― Thomas Jefferson
24. “It’s not about money or connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.” ― Mark Cuban
25. “I never took a day off in my 20s. Not one.” ― Bill Gates
26. “Work hard, have fun, make history.” ― Jeff Bezos
27. “If you are willing to work hard and ask lots of questions, you can learn business pretty fast.” ― Steve Jobs
28. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” ― Conrad Hilton
29. “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
30. “When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity.” ― Steve Pavlina
31. Success is best when it’s shared.” ― Howard Schultz
32. “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” ― Peter F. Drucker
33. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.” ― Thomas Edison
34. “What you don’t sweat out when you’re young will turn into tears when you’re old.” ― Japanese Proverb
35. “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” ― Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
36. “Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” ― G.K. Neilson
37. “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” ― Charles F. Kettering
38. “Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.” ― Iain Duncan Smith
39. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” ― Bruce Lee
40. “Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.” ― Proverbs 6:6, ESV
41. “I’m against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do.” ― Colonel Sanders
42. “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.” ― Thomas Jefferson
43. “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
44. “If you work hard enough and assert yourself and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.” ― Malcolm Gladwell
45. “Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No Excuses.” ― Kobe Bryant
46. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. ― Colin Powell, former U.S. Defense Secretary
47. “Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.” ― Booker T. Washington
48. “No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.” ― Anthony Bourdain
49. “Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They’re realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.” ― Elbert Hubbard
50. “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.” ― Henry Ford
51. “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.” ― Booker T. Washington
52. “If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.” ― Michelangelo
53. Without labor, nothing prospers.” ― Sophocles
54. “For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.” ― Jessica Savitch
55. “Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.” ― Jahangir Khan
56. “We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.” ― Ariana Huffington
57. “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
58. “The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.” ― Alexander Graham Bell
59. “Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.” ― Joseph Barbara
60. “Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.” ― Ray Kroc