Top 110 Motivational and Inspirational Quotes About Hard Work

2. “I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day’s hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.” – Joseph Pulitzer

3. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”  ―  Babe Ruth

4. Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. – Dwayne Johnson

5. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”  – Babe Ruth

6. “The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream.” – Tommy Hilfiger

7. “Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn’t what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You…Be Free…Share.”  ― Steve Maraboli

8. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” – Colin Powell

9.   “I learned the value of hard work by working hard.”  – Margaret Mead

10. “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it”
―  Thomas Jefferson 

11. “Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren’t sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.” – John Carmack

12. “Nothing worth having comes easy.”  – Theodore Roosevelt

13. . “I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true–hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.” – Ray Bradbury

14. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”  ―  Thomas A. Edison

15. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”  – Albert Einstein

16. “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”
– Peter Drucker

17. “If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”  ―  Michelangelo Buonarroti

18. “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.” – Calvin Coolidge

19. “The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything.”  – Vince Lombardi

20. “Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.” – Beyonce Knowles 

21. “…talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”  ― Patrick Süskind

22. “All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.” – Pope Paul

23. “All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work Boulevard at some point.”  – Eric Thomas

24. . “I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it’s a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy.” – Mike Rowe

25. “The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.”  ― Criss Jami

26. “Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.” – Vince Lombardi

27. “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.”  – Tommy Lasorda

28. “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” – Martin Luther King

29. “It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.”  ― Charlotte Brontë

30. “Without labor nothing prospers.”  – Sophocles 

31.   “It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.” –George Lucas

32. “Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man’s true worth.”
―  Criss Jami

33. “If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

34. “No shortcuts, work for it.”  – Unknown

35. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich

36. “Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.”  ―  Kevin Durant

37. “Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.”    – Campbell Scott

38.   “Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.” – Kevin Hart

39. “Sometimes there’s not a better way. Sometimes there’s only the hard way.”
―  Mary E. Pearson

40. “Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but without it you don’t have a chance.” –  Alex Rodriguez 

41.   “I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.” – Jerry Rice

42. “It doesn’t matter how great your shoes are if you don’t accomplish anything in them.”
―  Martina Boone

43. “Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.” – Booker T. Washington

44. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”  – Steve Jobs

45. “I’m a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it’s frivolous or superficial, but it’s not that way at all. It’s actually very hard work.” – Donatella Versace

46. “Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.”  ―  Mokokoma Mokhonoana

47. “There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.” – Cesar Chavez

48. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”  – Beverly Sills

49.   “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” – Stephen King

50. “Barking hard work, being a boy.”  ― Scott Westerfeld

51. “I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.” – Maria Bartiromo 

52.   “The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell.”  – Andrew Carnegie

53. “My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.” – Douglas Preston

54. “Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy”  ―  Robert Half

55. “See, winners embrace hard work.”  – Lou Holtz

56. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them”  – Ann Landers

57. “The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses–behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.” – Muhammad Ali

58. “No one ever drowned in sweat.”  ― U.S. Marine Corps

59. “We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better life.” – Hillary Clinton

60. “In a free society, every opportunity comes with three obligations. First, you must seize it. You must mold it into a work that brings value to others. Second, you must live it. Opportunity is nurtured only by action. Third, you must defend the freedom to pursue opportunities. You must embrace these three obligations as if the future of the United States depended on it. In fact, it does.”  – Robert C. Goizueta 

61.   “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
– Abraham Lincoln

62. “People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base.”  ―  Muhammad Yunus

63. “Nothing will work unless you do.”  – John Wooden

64. Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, ‘Do I really want to do this?'” – Joan Jett

65. “She was tough in the best sense of the word. She’d taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work.”  ―  Nora Roberts 

66. “There’s no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you – unless your potion is hard work.” – Jeffrey Gitomer

67. “Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity.” –  Arabian Proverb

68.   “Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.” – Lou Holtz

69. “Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.”  ―  Helen Hanson

70. “A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.”  –  Guy Kawasaki 

71. “All good work requires self-revelation.”  ―  Sidney Lumet

72. “Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.”  ―  Honoré de Balzac

73. “I guarantee the people who study are going to be successful. Nothing can replace hard work.”  –  Freeman A. Hrabowski

74. “When all things seem to fail, stand on your inner strength, shovel today’s challenges for your tomorrow’s freedom.”  ―  Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

75. “Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It’s fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.” – Michelle Trachtenberg 

76. “Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
―  Ernest Hemingway

77. “It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.” – Virginia Woolf

78. “Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.”  ―  Liza M. Wiemer

79. A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man’s success. – Kailash Kher

80. “Too many irons, not enough fire.”  ―  S. Kelley Harrell 

81. Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.  – Lucille Ball

82. “Wrote my way out of the hood…thought my way out of poverty! Don’t tell me that knowledge isn’t power. Education changes everything.”  ―  Brandi L. Bates

83. Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. –  Michael Johnson

84. “When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.”  ―  Roy Bennett

85. We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life. – Bob Ehrlich 

86. “To achieve what 1% of the worlds population has (Financial Freedom), you must be willing to do what only 1% dare to do..hard work and perseverance of highest order.”
―  Manoj Arora

87. “I’d like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.”

88. “It’s a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can’t. Anything more than that is luck.”  ―  Haruki Murakami 

89. “The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.” –  Gabby Douglas

90. “Ideas do not work..
It is YOU who has to do the work….”  ―  Manoj Arora 

91. “You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay – for all of us. For the greater good. That’s what our vision of shared prosperity is all about.” – Richard Trumka

92. “You got the eggs in you; the world is fully ready to celebrate the chicks out of your laying labor. Never give up. Go and breed! Go and breed great dreams.”
―  Israelmore Ayivor

93. “Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can’t thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us.” – Denise Juneau

94. “Hard work makes you feel good because you have accomplished something.”
―  Alcurtis Turner

95. Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people. – Lewis B. Smedes 

96. “There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.” – Heather Bresch

97. “You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance”  ―  Sunday Adelaja

98. “No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work.” – Jonathan Sacks

99. “Making a name for yourself comes from working hard”  ―  Sunday Adelaja

100. “When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that’s a really good feeling.” – Derek Jeter  

101. “A good lover? One percent talent and ninety-nine percent hard work.”
―  Ljupka Cvetanova

102. Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare – and special – human beings who use the fullness of their talents to do their very best. – Robin S. Sharma

103. 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

104. “Work hard, keep your nose clean, and just stick around.” ― Clint Eastwood

105. If you’re not a smart worker, it’s about how hard you work to double the amount from the heart; if you’re not a hard worker, it’s about how smart you work but times two from the brain.”  ― Criss Jami

106. True leaders are ready to sweat when making the rehearsal than to cry tears when actually practicing. To save the tears, be ready to sweat!” ― Israelmore Ayivor

107. “It is a belief of the mediocre that extreme effort kills.” ― Moffat Machingura

108. “Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.” – Dustin Lynch

109. “I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn’t instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way.” – Trey Songz

110. “Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat, and tears. It feels right and makes you realize that you are really doing the right thing.” – Abby Wambach