Hard Work Quotes

""Don't save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential to every take, and be on top of your job, or they will replace you.""

- Gabrielle Union

""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

""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

""Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.""

- Conan O'Brien

"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming."

- Wernher von Braun

"In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision."

- Lionel Messi

"I start early, and I stay late, day after day, year after year, it took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success"

- Lionel Messi

"I always thought that if you want to be the best, you have to work harder than everyone else"

- Lionel Messi

"It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success"

- Lionel Messi

"The only way to get what you want in the world is through hard work."

- Tiana

"If you want to master the mind […], you’ll have to become addicted to hard work. Because passion and obsession, even talent, are only useful tools if you have the work ethic to back them up."

- David Goggins

"When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky."

- Armand Hammer

"The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying."

- Steven Pressfield

"It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently."

- Anthony Robbins

"Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals."

- Gandhi

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

- Michelangelo

"There is no substitute for hard work, determination, and keeping the faith."

- Dorothy Height

"If training is hard, then winning will be easy, but if training is easy, then winning will be hard."

- Norman Harris

"You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn't become a defining deal."

- Greg Jackson

"If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the fight's going to be easy."

- Rashad Evans

""Hard work can't be ignored forever.""

- John Moraga

""If you train 100% the result will be 100%.""

- Anderson Silva

""Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much.""

- John Smith

""They say that a lion puts his all, even into catching a rabbit. You should make it a habit of putting your all into every little thing you do.""

- Koichi Tohei

"I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning."

- Jonathan Swift

"Some people work hard. Others are hardly working."

"We don’t rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training."

"Hard work and dedication will always pay off in the end."

"Nothing worth having comes easy."

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work."