Hard Work Quotes

"Success isn’t given, it is earned. On the track, on the field, in the gym. With blood, sweat, and the occasional tear."

- Nike

"Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life."

- Tyler Perry

"Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

"It’s the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it’s the hardest job."

- Debra Messing

"Once you sign on to be a mother, 24/7 is the only shift they offer."

- Jodi Picoult

"If evolution really works, how come mother’s only have two hands?"

- Milton Berle

"Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes."

- P.J. O'Rourke

"I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty, but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it."

- Rose Kennedy

"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

"If you do every job like you’re going to do it for the rest of your life, that’s when you get noticed."

- Mary Barra

"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

"I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these 10 or 20 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

"It’s hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant."

- Katarina Witt

"I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I’m not saying I’m particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it."

- Kenny G

"Everyone’s like, ‘overnight sensation.’ It’s not overnight. It’s years of hard work."

- Margot Robbie

"Anything in life worth having is worth working for."

- Andrew Carnegie

"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

"I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I’ve talked to coal miners, and that’s really hard work."

- William Shatner

"I hate that word: lucky. It cheapens a lot of hard work."

- Peter Dinklage

"The last 10 percent it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90 percent."

- Rob Kalin

"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

"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

"Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought."

- Alexander Hamilton

"Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life."

- Tyler Perry

"You always put in the extra effort, and it really shows. Thanks for being so dedicated!"

"Your hard work and dedication is an example to everyone on our team! Thank you for being your best every day!"

"You never do just a good job when you can do a great one. Thank you for the time and effort you put into everything you do!"

"I admire your dedication to always putting forth excellent work."

"Your attention to detail and passion for what you do make all the difference!"

"Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong"

- Anonymous