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Hard Work Quotes to Inspire and Motivate

These hard work quotes emphasize the importance of staying on task and putting in the necessary effort to succeed.

Sometimes, it’s just the slimmest of margins that determine why one venture succeeds and another fails. A little extra effort can result in big gains. Read these selections for inspiration and motivation.

So, if you’re looking to strengthen your work ethic, have a read-through of these insights. Hopefully, they’ll give you the strength you need for the hard work required in your day.

Best Hard Work Sayings

1.) 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 Jr.

2.) Do or do not. There is no try.
Yoda

3.) Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston S. Churchill

4.) It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
Amelia Barr

5.) Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Thomas Carlyle

6.) A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.
Colin Powell

7.) Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

8.) The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!
Marvin Phillip

9.) Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.
Mahatma Gandhi

10.) Men die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease. They do not die of hard work.
David Ogilvy

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Tough Grind Sayings

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

Skill comes from consistent and deliberate practice.
Shawn Allen

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Perseverance, the secret of all triumphs.
Victor Hugo

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Unknown

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

Without labor nothing prospers.
Sophocles

Steve Jobs Quote on Work

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 it when you find it.
Steve Jobs

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Uphill Battle

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville

Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.
Chris Grosser

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.
Malala Yousafzai

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Calvin Coolidge

Don’t give up in times of difficulty. Persevere on as there will be an end to these.
Edward Dunedin

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.
Unknown

All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.
Eric Thomas

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.
Pelé

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Motivational Quotes

Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Wayne Huizenga

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 road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
Colin R. Davis

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Earl Nightingale

Look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow, it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Jacob A. Riis

Fools wait for a lucky day, but every day is a lucky day for an industrious man.
Gautama Buddha

Perseverance means that achieving a goal is not an ‘if’ possibility but, instead is a ‘definite’ passion.
Byron Pulsifer

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine

Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.
Calvin Coolidge

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Diligence and Drudgery

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
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There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
Cesar Chavez

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
E. E. Cummings

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

Never, never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.
Sophie Kerr

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

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Toil and Effort

The affirmation of strong perseverance, of keeping at it, of continuous, undeviating effort, is bound to pay off ultimately if you have the inner compulsion to visualize and keep at it.
Norman Vincent Peale

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

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.
Jim Rohn

I dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail, I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.
Og Mandino

Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.
Troilus and Cressida

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work.
Stephen King

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

Persevere Sayings

Perseverance is persistence the prize of not giving up.
Jane Tedesco

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

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
Gillian Anderson

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
Mark Twain

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.
Tim Notke

If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.
Michelangelo

Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They’re realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus & hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.
Elbert Hubbard

Vigorous Quotes

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.
Charles Spurgeon

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

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

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.
Unknown

It’s not about money or connection — it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.
Mark Cuban

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

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

Untiring Quotes

There will be obstacles. There will be doubter. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.
Michael Phelps

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.
Kobe Bryant

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

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

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

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 Wilson Watts

Hardworking Quotations

A No. 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
Joyce Meyer

Failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner

One day someone is going to come to you and ask how you did it. Because you were creative, because you persevered, because you persisted through the resistance, you will be able to hold your chin up and help someone else overcome.
David DeNotaris

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.
Dwayne Johnson

Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.
Conan O’Brien

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

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Strenuous Effort

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

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter Drucker

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
David Sarnoff

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.
Michael John Bobak

If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
Steve Jobs

A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.
Ralph Lauren

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams

He conquers who endures.
Persius

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.
Alistair Cooke

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

Inspirational Quotes

Life can be filled with failures, but only those who don’t persevere adopt failure as the way it has to be.
Byron Pulsifer

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
Henry Ford

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Coleman Cox although frequently attributed to Thomas Jefferson

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey

Difficult Tasks

  • You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear and keep going.
    Geraldine Brooks
  • Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
    Beyonce Knowles
  • Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
    Lord Chesterfield
  • 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
  • Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
    Conrad Hilton
  • If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
  • 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

By Mike O’Halloran

Sports Feel Good Stories Editor Mike lets everyone know that finding the best quotes can be hard work (but not too hard).

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