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150 Inspirational Hard Work Quotes & Sayings

In this post, you will find 150 Inspirational Hard Work Quotes & Sayings.

Hard Work Quotes & Sayings

“Set goals. Say prayers. Work hard” – Unknown

“No one ever drowned in sweat.” – Unknown

“Good things happen to those who hustle.” – Anais Nin

“I love people, and the hustle.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

“The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.” – Unknown

“Don’t complain. Just work harder” – Unknown

“I’m a firm believer in the hustle game.” – Eric Snow

“All wealth is the product of labor.” – John Locke

“Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle” – Ross Simmonds

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

“My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling.” – Young Jeezy

“There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas A. Edison

“Don’t stop when you’re tired, stop when you’re done” – Unknown

“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” — Gordon B. Hinckley

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

“Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

“Focused, hard work is the real key to success.” – John Carmack

“Work harder than you think you did yesterday” – Unknown

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

“I’d rather hustle 24/7 than slave 9 to 5.” – Unknown

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” – Harry Golden

“There is only one way to success. It’s called hard work.” – Unknown

“Reality is easy. It’s deception that’s the hard work.” – Lauryn Hill

“Hustle in silence and let your success make the noise.” – Unknown

“Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.” – Iain Duncan Smith

“Always be the hardest worker in the room” – Unknown

“Hard work always wins in the end.” – Lucas Till

“There’s a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.” – Fetty Wap

“I enjoy hard work; I love setting goals and achieving them.” – Jewel

“Stop doubting yourself, work hard and make it happen” – Unknown

“I think hard work is what gets most people to the top.” – Rupert Sheldrake

“You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk” – Alan Alda

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

“Invest in your dreams. Grind now. Shine later.”– Unknown

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

“I like to work hard and see the results of my hard work.” – Erin Heatherton

“Hustle is the most important word. Ever” – Gary Vaynerchuk

“Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.” – Jerry Rice

“Don’t stay in bed unless you can make money in bed.” – George Burns

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

“My entire life can be summed up in four word: I hustled. I conquered.” – Unknown

“Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.” – Virat Kohli

“Good things come to those who work their asses off and never give up.” – Unknown

“For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.” – Jessica Savitch

“You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic” – Unknown

“It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.” – Bela Lugosi

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

“Like basketball, fashion is hard work.” – Amar’e Stoudemire

“Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you” – Mark Cuban

“Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.” – David Naughton

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

“Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.” – Aaron Schock

“Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” – Unknown

“I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.” – Sandra Bullock

“The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.” – Unknown

“Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work.” – Jerry Cantrell

“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it” – Unknown

“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” – Anne Frank

“Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.” – Byron Dorgan

“Without hard work and discipline, it is difficult to be a top professional.” – Jahangir Khan

“Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.” – Michael Diamond

“Let them sleep while you grind. Let them party while you work. The difference will show.” – Unknown

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

“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” – David Bly

“Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.” – Ben Carson

“What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.” – Don Zimmer

“We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Work hard! In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.” – Pete Docter

“Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.” – Nadia Comaneci

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

“When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work.” – Jeff Garcia

“I don’t have any formula. I just work with my heart, putting in a lot of hard work.” – Ranbir Kapoor

“My career has been successful, but it’s been a grind of hard work.” – Emmanuelle Chriqui

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

“I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.” – Maria Sharapova

“I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.” – Tom Freston

“Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.” – Evelyn Ashford

“I’m living everyday like a hustle. Another drug to juggle. Another day, another struggle.” – Notorious BIG

“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

“You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three.” – Haile Gebrselassie

“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

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

“Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.” – Haile Gebrselassie

“When I meet successful people, I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.” – Kiana Tom

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

“Focused. I’m a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.” – Mos Def

“Hard work pays off – hard work beats talent any day, but if you’re talented and work hard, it’s hard to be beat.” – Robert Griffin III

“The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.” – Maxine Hong Kingston

“We all naturally want to become successful… we also want to take shortcuts. And it’s easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.” – Apolo Ohno

“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

“The dream doesn’t lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.” – Alphonso Jackson

“I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life’s problems.” – James Cash Penney

“Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.” -Roger Staubach

“I want to be remembered like Pete Rose ‘Charlie Hustle.’ I want people to say, ‘Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.” – Walter Payton

“I have a fear of public speaking. It’s very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they’re not my skill, I have to work doubly hard.” – Kerry Stokes

“When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it’s a lot of hard work and patience.” – Burning Spear

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

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

“As an older and wiser man, I don’t believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.” – Dexter Fletcher

“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.” – Oscar Pistorius

“My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors.” – Pola Negri

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

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

“I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.” – Charles Evans Hughes

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

“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.” – Colin Powell

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

“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

“You can’t cheat the grind, it knows how much you have invested, it won’t give you anything you haven’t worked for.” – Anonymous

“Some hustle for respect. Some hustle for love. Others hustle for truth. We all hustle to survive.” – Unknown

“Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing yourself to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.” – Anonymous

“Hard work – I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn’t fly. It’s all in the practice. It does take work and it ain’t easy – but man, the rewards!” – Susan Powter

“When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity.” – Steve Pavlina

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell

“Never expect anyone to give you what you want. Work hard, show some dedication and go get it yourself.” – Anonymous

“It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother’s lips to kiss you.” – Ouida

“The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.” — Barack Obama

“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

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” — Barack Obama

“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

“The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.” — Thomas A. Edison

“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication.” – Gail Devers

“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 it should get you pretty near.” — Margaret Thatcher

“I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn’t take any ability to hustle.” – Wade Boggs

“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So, I did ten times more work.” — George Bernard Shaw

“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

“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

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

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

“When I started flirting with the hustle, failure became my ex. Now engaged to the game and married to success.” – Unknown

“Inspiration is one thing and you can’t control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.” – Kevin Eubanks

“My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn’t due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs

“There is no substitute for hard work. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really super-hard work, first in, last out. Mary Callahan Erdoesk. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really super-hard work, first in, last out.” – Mary Callahan Erdoes

“To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing; it’s about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It’s about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.” – Summer Sanders

“Sporting success doesn’t happen by accident. It takes hard work and determination on the part of the individual athletes. And it also takes investment in facilities and training support.” – Nicola Sturgeon

“Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.” – Andre Agassi

“I love what I’m doing most of the time, but it’s hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don’t know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.” – Gavin Rossdale

“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

“You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.” – Donald Sutherland

“But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.” – Kanye West

“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 realise that you are really doing the right thing.” – Abby Wambach

“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.” – David Rockefeller

“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

“I just think a hustler’s ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I’ll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I’m their hero.” – Young Jeezy

“My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.” – Ronnie James Dio

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