“There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as an overnight success or easy money.” ― Henry Sy
“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.” ― Orson Scott Card
“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
“Live the Life of Your Dreams 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 T. Bennett
“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” ― Michelangelo Buonarroti
“...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.” ― Patrick Süskind
“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
“The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.” ― Criss Jami
“Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.” ― Ludwig von Mises
“Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.” ― Tim Fargo
“No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.” ― Anthony Bourdain
“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
“If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.” ― George Monbiot
“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
“Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.” ― Mary E. Pearson
“The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them.” ― J. Cornell Michel
“It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.” ― Martina Boone
“Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face.” ― Manoj Arora
“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” ― Justin Halpern
“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.” ― Criss Jami
“The choice, as he saw it, was this: You give up or you work for change. “What’s better for us?” Barack called to the people gathered in the room. “Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?” ― Michelle Obama
“University, he said quietly. It sounded like a dream; it tasted like damnation.” ― Nora Sakavic
“Nothing worth doing is easy," frank said. "Especially not in the beginning. But I'm not about to give up.” ― Morgan Matson
“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
“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.” ― Michael Jackson
“I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends because I learn things and find ways to fit them into my own world. I hear what people say, rearrange it, take away and tear apart until it finds value in my reality and there I make it work. I find spaces in between the cracks and cuts where it feels empty and there I make it work.” ― Charlotte Eriksson
“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
“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
“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
“I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!” ― Eliezer Yudkowsky
“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
“I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.” ― Criss Jami
“He had the kind of real deep tan that rich people spent ages trying to achieve with expensive holidays and bits of tinfoil, when really all you need to do to obtain one is work your arse off in the open air everyday.” ― Terry Pratchett
“There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all equals as human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that's that. I am not talented. I am obsessed.” ― Conor McGregor
“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
“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
“If you don't sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice” ― Anonymous
“Plant your tiny seeds and keep watering them every day. Soon, they’ll grow.” ― Israelmore Ayivor
“You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.” ― Criss Jami
“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.” ― Joyce Chapman
“I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen' 'You make it sound so simple.' 'It is simple,' he said. 'The thing is, it's also a lot of hard work. And people don't want to put in a lot of work.” ― Jojo Moyes
“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
“Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.” ― Tad Williams
“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.” ― Isra
“Be like water, Flow like a river, Crash like the rain, Fly like the cloud again!” ― Md. Ziaul Haque
“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.” ― Israelmore Ayivor
“A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.” ― Criss Jami
“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.” ― Amit Kalantri
“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!” ― Israelmore Ayivor
“Pleasure” is different from “happiness”. It has its own definition. Pleasure may or may not come from hard work; Pleasure may or may not come from sin; However, happiness is always divine and comes from fulfillment!” ― Israelmore Ayivor
“The size of the tree you cut determines the weight with which you have to throw the axe.” ― Israelmore Ayivor
“Painful workouts yield gainful results. This is true of every gain. No pain, no gain.” ― Haresh Sippy
“Maximize the time you have through hard work, concentration and research” ― Sunday Adelaja
“Every beautiful mind has great dreams, but rarely is anyone ever ready to work hard for their dreams.” ― Terry Mark
“Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.” ― Simon Sinek
“Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm, and genuine people.” ― Tena Desae
“Hard work compounds like interest, and the earlier you do it, the more time you have for the benefits to pay off.” — Sam Altman
“Work and you’ll get what you need; work harder and you’ll get what you want.” — Prabakaran Thirumalai
“Hard work is an essential element in tracking down and perfecting a strategy or in executing it.” — Charlie Munger
“If you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that’s easier said than done, but keep trying.” – Beyonce Knowles
“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.” – Steve Jobs
“If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.. Follow your Dreams.” – Jane Goodall
“Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” – William James
“Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.” – John Smith
“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.” – Dean Kamen
“The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.” – Joshua Waitzkin
“You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.” – Haile Gebrselassie
“Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking shortcuts.” – Roger Staubach
“A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.” — Larry Bird
“I am no genius; I just worked hard like my other teammates, and I believe all my teammates can win the title as they work hard, too.” — Lin Dan
“Irrespective of whether you have the talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.” — Virat Kohli
“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” — Jerry Rice
“Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.” – Dan Gable
“There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you.” – Derek Jeter
“Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.” – Liane Cardes
“Skill is only developed by hours and hours of work.” – Usain Bolt
“Everyone’s like, ‘overnight sensation.’ It’s not overnight. It’s years of hard work.” – Margot Robbie
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work.” – Stephen King
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” – Oprah Winfrey
“How long you can continue to be good at something is how much you believe in yourself and how much hard work you do with the training.” – Jason Statham
“It feels like my hard work has paid off, but at the same time, I still have the impostor, you know, syndrome. I still feel like I’m going to wake up, and everybody’s going to see me for the hack I am.” – Viola Davis
“I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn’t even know about it. If that isn’t destiny, what is?” – Priyanka Chopra
“People from all walks of life and all over the world look at me and know my humble beginnings and know that everything I’ve done has been through hard work. People respect me as a marketer and brand builder.” – Sean Combs
“The one thing I’ve learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don’t get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they’re going to have to ride. That’s the hard work.” – Enrique Iglesias
“I believe in hard work. I think that everything flows out of that.” – Aisha Tyler
“Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.” – Larry Hagman
“Touring is a tough plane to get off the ground, and it takes a lot of hard work and a lot of investments.” – G-Eazy
“I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.” – J. Cole
“It’s definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it’s also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don’t know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.” – Christina Aguilera
“Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.” – Beyonce Knowles
“There’s no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you – unless your potion is hard work.” – Jeffrey Gitomer
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“You are not your resume, you are your work.” – Seth Godin
“Have the end in mind and every day make sure you’re working towards it.” – Ryan Allis
“Great companies are built in the office, with hard work put in by a team.” – Emily Chang
“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
“Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.” – Richard Branson
“Push yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.”
“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich
“Work harder than you think you did yesterday.” – Alex Elle
“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
“You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.” – Alan Alda
“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
“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
“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
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. -Stephen King
If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. -Steve Jobs
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. -Thomas A. Edison
If you can’t outplay them, outwork them. -Ben Hogan
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. -Henri-Frederic Amiel
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. -William A. Ward
A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent. -Guy Kawasaki
Don’t work for recognition but do work worthy of recognition. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all, cherish a magnificent obsession.” – Walt Disney
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
A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint. -Sarah Price
Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work. -Joseph Barbara
I would rather die of passion than of boredom. -Emile Zola
If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures. -Gaius Musonius Rufus
A year from now you may wish you had started today. -Karen Lamb
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. -Babe Ruth
Look in the mirror – that’s your competition.
Sometimes there’s not a better way. Sometimes there’s only the hard way. -Mary E. Pearson
Work incessantly, but be not attached to it. -Swami Vivekananda
I never took a day off in my 20s. Not one. -Bill Gates
Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No Excuses. -Kobe Bryant
The problems you work on and who you work with are as important as how hard you work. -Shane Parrish
To learn you must be willing to change. To change you must be willing to suffer. To suffer you must be willing to work. -Maxime Lagacé
Blood, sweat and respect. The first two you give, the last one you get.
Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.
Sometimes there’s not a better way. Sometimes there’s only the hard way. -Mary E. Pearson
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. -Frederick Douglass
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. -Will Rogers
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” ― David Bly
Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose. -G.K. Neilson
I would rather risk wearing out than rusting out. -Theodore Roosevelt
Men die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease. They do not die of hard work. -David Ogilvy
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
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
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. -Confucius
Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to try to take it all away from you. -Mark Cuban
One must work and dare if one really wants to live. -Vincent van Gogh
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. -Gen. Colin Powell
It hurts now but one day it will be your warm up.
Be thankful for what you have. Work hard for what you don’t have.
Sore today, strong tomorrow.
I sweat in tears to get what I want. -Lailah Akita
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
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. -Abraham Lincoln
There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. -Calvin Coolidge
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. -Frank Lloyd Wright
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
When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really played. -Dr. Seuss
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed. -Mark Warner
Hard work does pay off. -Michael Phelps
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. -Orson Scott Card
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
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 soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. -Proverbs 13:4, ESV
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day. -Wayne Gretzky
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 worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all. -Michelangelo
Hard work betrays none. -Hachiman Hikigaya
I don’t like work – no man does – but I like what is in the work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself not for others – what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means. -Joseph Conrad
What comes easy won’t last. What lasts won’t come easy.
Nothing can beat hard work. -Conor McGregor
Hard work teaches us that it takes more than hard work. -Jack Butcher
Work hard in silence; let success make the noise. -Frank Ocean
Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich. -Jim Carrey
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
To achieve what 1% of the world’s population has, you must be willing to do what only 1% dares to do. -Manoj Arora
What you don’t sweat out when you’re young will turn into tears when you’re old. -Japanese Proverb
Work harder than you think you did yesterday. -Alex Elle
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
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. -Newt Gingrich
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
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. -Tim Notke
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it. – Buddha
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney
Men die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease. They do not die of hard work. – David Ogilvy
Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far. – Gary Vaynerchuk
What comes easy won’t last. What lasts won’t come easy.
I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as a nation, and it’s a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy. – Mike Rowe
Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone. – Joan Didion
The ones who say you can’t are too afraid you will. – Nike
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
The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress. – Dan Waldschmidt
Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you. – Jeffrey Gitomer
When you do more than you’re paid for, eventually you’ll be paid for more than you do. – Zig Ziglar
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. – Josh Billings
“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” – Dwayne Johnson
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination. – Tommy Lasorda
If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it. – Elon Musk
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. – Zig Ziglar
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. – Dale Carnegie
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. – Charles de Lint
"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
There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success. – Heather Bresch
I’m a firm believer in if you work hard, you should play hard. So, I try to keep my life as balanced as possible to keep my sanity. – Alicia Sacramone
When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all. – Theodore Roosevelt
The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty. – Alex Spanos
If you work hard enough and assert yourself and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. – Malcolm Gladwell
I would rather risk wearing out than rusting out. – Theodore Roosevelt
The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn’t prepared to work for. – Habeeb Akande
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
I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the lover of it. I live it. – Maya Angelou
The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph! – Marvin Phillips
This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. – Alan Watts
Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel mine and coming out with empty hands. – Japanese Proverb
“It’s not about money or connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.” — Mark Cuban
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. – Franklin d. Roosevelt
Don’t give up. The beginning is always the hardest. Life rewards those who work hard at it.
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
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. – Calvin Coolidge
You must earn what you get, and your rewards will always be a true indicator of the service you give. – John Soforic
Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No Excuses. – Kobe Bryant
Never expect anyone to give you what you want. Work hard, show some dedication and go get it yourself.
Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room. – Dwayne Johnson
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.
You can’t cheat the grind, it knows how much you have invested, it won’t give you anything you haven’t worked for.
All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.
A dream doesn’t become a reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work. – Colin Powell
The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you don’t sweat out when you’re young will turn into tears when you’re old. – Japanese Proverb
“Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.” ― Helen Hanson
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. – Stephen King
I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life — and that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To achieve what 1% of the world’s population has, you must be willing to do what only 1% dares to do. – Manoj Arora
“Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy” ― Robert Half
Sometimes there’s not a better way. Sometimes there’s only the hard way. – Mary E. Pearson
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. – Newt Gingrich
It is not the dirty gardeners who deserve our pity, but rather the clean ones, sitting on their porches, waiting for the perfect job while their gardens grow into disarray. – John Soforic
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. – Babe Ruth
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 Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t. – Lucille Ball
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential. – Winston Churchill
“Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.” ― Ben Carson
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. – Colin Powell
Half effort does not produce half results. It produces no result. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last. – John Soforic
Work is the best friend I have ever known. It has brought me all the good things I have had. – John Soforic
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
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
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice. ~ Henry Ford
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. ~ Malcolm Forbes
I work hard because I love my work. ~ Bill Gates
It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football. ~ Roger Staubach
I learned the value of hard work by working hard. ~ Margaret Mead
I’ve learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work. ~ Greg Behrendt
Sticking to good habits can be hard work, and mistakes are part of the process. Don’t declare failure simply because you messed up or because you’re having trouble reaching your goals. Instead, use your mistakes as opportunities to grow stronger and become better. ~ Amy Morin
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
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
I’m against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do. ~ Colonel Sanders
Entrepreneurship is a great leveler. The wonderful thing is that money is not the sole currency when it comes to starting a business; drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash. ~ Richard Branson
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
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
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
