Hard Work Quotes

"Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom."

- Sandra Day O'Connor

"I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work."

- Louis C. K.

"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong."

- Carla Hall

"Being a chef would be too much hard work."

- Sophie Ellis-Bextor

"My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil."

- JP Getty

"How to win in life: 1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow 5 don't let people tell you it cant be done 6 make no excuses"

- Germany Kent

"I didn’t fall out of bed and become an Olympic champion. I worked hard, I was dedicated, and I really worked to perfect all aspects of my game."

- Michele Smith

"I’m not exceptionally fast or overly powerful. But I have a good work ethic, and I make up for it by using technique and trying to be smarter."

- Dot Richardson

"Here's how I'm going to beat you. I'm going to outwork you. That's it. That's all there is to it."

- Pat Summitt

"Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something ... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication."

- Roger Staubach

"The only way to improve is to practice."

- Jack Nicklaus

"The harder you practice, the luckier you get."

- Gary Player

"If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. But if you work at it, it’s golf."

- Bob Hope

"The more I practice the luckier I get."

- Arnold Palmer

"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all."

- Michelangelo

"Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind."

- Johannes Brahms

"There is nothing like practice."

- Alan Hovhaness

"Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection."

- Alban Berg

"To be number one, you have to train like you're number two."

- Maurice Greene

"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare."

- Juma Ikangaa

"All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired."

- Brendan Foster

"There's nothing we can't do if we work hard, never sleep, and shirk all other responsibilities in our lives."

- Leslie Knope

"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"

- Ronald Reagan

"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

"If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur."

- Red Adair

"Cowboys know that hard work pays off."

"You don’t have to be brilliant to be a doctor. You have to be hardworking and have good character. That’s what makes good doctors."

"The harder you’ll work for something, the greater you will feel when you’ll achieve it."

"If you think hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs."