Top 100 Hard Work Quotes of All Time

In a world driven by dreams and aspirations, the concept of hard work holds a special place. Whether it's achieving personal goals, professional success, or making a difference in the lives of others, the path to greatness often requires relentless dedication, determination, and unwavering effort. These quotes on hard work serve as a testament to the power of persistence, reminding us that with every challenge conquered and every hurdle overcome, we inch closer to the fulfillment of our ambitions.

"If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault."

"I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

"Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better."

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense."

"If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all."

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

"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."

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

"The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored."

"Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities."

"Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it."

"It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer."

"No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American."

"Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard."

"If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire."

"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."

"Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way."

"It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them."

"Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face."

"If you work hard and study hard. And you fuck up. That's okay. If you fuck up and you fuck up, then you're a fuckup"

"The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies."

"Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love."

"Nothing worth doing is easy," frank said. "Especially not in the beginning. But I'm not about to give up."

"I'm really very self-confident when it comes to my work. When I take on a project, I believe in it 100%. I really put my soul into it. I'd die for it. That's how I am."

"Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll."

"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."

"Barking hard work, being a boy."

"All good work requires self-revelation."

"I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!"

"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."

"I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for."

"Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes."

"If you invest nothing, the reward is worth little."

"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."

"Too many irons, not enough fire."

"If you don't sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice."

"Plant your tiny seeds and keep watering them every day. Soon, they’ll grow."

"It is great to do what you love but greater with the great team."

"Success necessitates sacrifice."

"If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there."

"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."

"Ideas do not work... It is YOU who has to do the work...."

"I find that the harder I work , the more luck I seem to have."

"Do not let your good ideas to spend your brain energy, do it with all the effort because the shadow of the success can become a reality only with hard work."

"Some people dream of SUCCESS while other wake up and work hard at it."

"You got the eggs in you; the world is fully ready to celebrate the chicks out of your laying labour. Never give up. Go and breed! Go and breed great dreams."

"A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud."

"The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet."

"Try not to leave your work for someone else to do. If possible, carry the work of someone and add it to yours. That's a trait of leaders!"

"Work hard, keep your nose clean, and just stick around."

"Work hard, work hard, and work harder!"

"Experts were once amateurs who kept practicing."

"The size of the tree you cut determines the weight with which you have to throw the axe."

"Leaders are not born, but made as a result of hard work."

"Painful workouts yield gainful results. This is true of every gain. No pain, no gain."

"The strength of individual greatness makes a great team."

"Maximize the time you have through hard work, concentration and research."

"If everyday you keep getting better, you end up being the best."

"Hard work makes you feel good because you have accomplished something."

"Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise."

"I can only strive for what is important."

"Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail- the gumption to try and save ourselves- isn't that what he wanted us to do?"

"Focus on the behaviors, and the results will follow."

"The wonderful patience of the trail... comes to men who toil hard and suffer sore, and remain sweet of speech and kindly."

"The importance of hard work lies in the healing hands of success."

"Change can take years--before it happens all at once."

"If you think something through hard enough, you’ll get to the inevitable answer."

"Like a farmer you should be too busy cultivating your crops to care what others think about the untidiness of your lands."

"Explore every available option until you reach the position of choice, where you can afford to ignore less comfortable options."

"There is no perfect position of choice. Every position has its limitations."

"As you aim for more significant opportunities, the position of choice transforms into a moving target."

"Bigger opportunities have a narrow position of choice. Your attitude to work with fewer choices will always be handy in your growth cycle."

"Do your work well, that is all there is."

"Whatever you want, you must be willing to pay the price."

"Believe in yourself, work hard, stay focused, and never give up. Success will come."

"Of course, everyone wants to be happy and successful, but not everyone wants to work hard and have patience."

"Working hard is often the difference between success and failure, but is also a rewarding pursuit in itself."

"Just because you’re at work…doesn’t mean you’re working."

"Run the race as if everything in existence depends upon it, because everything in your existence does."

"Hard work isn’t a punishment. It builds character, provides a sense of purpose, and promotes confidence and self-esteem."

"It is wise to be lazy, intermittently."

"We're all capable of more, don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Keep chasing those dreams, through hard work you'll eventually catch them."

"It's the freaking American way--you start out in a dangerous craphole and work hard so you can someday move up to a somewhat less dangerous craphole. And finally maybe you get a mansion."

"No mountain is endless, some are steeper than the others."

"If it’s my loss; I’m happily accepting it. I’ll bleed hard to not make your loss is the care."

"Nothing is free in this world and what is free is nothing."

"The worth of the country lies in hard working citizens."

"I have noticed this characteristic difference in the popular attitude - partiality for exciting work, dislike for quiet constructive effort."

"Honestly, I’ve wanted to give up a lot of times. But I worked hard. I believed I would succeed if I worked hard."

"Someone you know may tell you "Why are you stressing out about it? My situation is worse" . But really, the truth is that everyone has their own struggles. Struggles are not something that can be compared."

"Idalina herself had told the girl once that luck was not something to be trusted and that often it was merely the substitute of the lazy, for hard work and endurance."

"You are only right when your timing is right, but you are never right when your timing is not right, no matter how hard you struggle to get your timing right."

"It's hard work and dedication that earns you respect in your team and brings out your inner strength and ability."

"The importance of hard work lies in the healing and comforting hands of success."

"Needless envying those who are drunk with success; they were once sober with hard work."

"At some point, we reach maximum efficiency and hard work is replaced with smart work. But until then, you better work like crazy. Especially in the beginning, your business needs you to work like crazy."