Hard Work Quotes

"Train hard. Fight easy."

- Tiger Woods

"Younger guys now are all working out, and you find that if everyone's doing it and you're not doing it, you're going to be left behind."

- Tiger Woods

"Flowers are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful', and sitting in the shade."

- Rudyard Kipling

"I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get."

- Thomas Jefferson

"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

"There is no substitute for work."

- Vince Lombardi

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

- Thomas Jefferson

"On the surface, a duck looks nice and calm, but underneath the surface of the water it's trying really hard to stay afloat. At Stanford, it may seem like everyone is a genius, but they have to work really hard to get there."

- Foluke Akinradewo

"All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means...You're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else."

- Vince Lombardi

"I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me"

- Larry Bird

"I didn't get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it."

- Estée Lauder

"Sometimes when we train, we simply have to go out and meet the man with the hammer"

- Laurent Fignon

"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

"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted."

- David Bly

"Work and you'll get what you need; work harder and you'll get what you want."

- Prabakaran Thirumalai

"Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off."

- Mary Lou Retton

"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest when you haven't planted."

- David Bly

"Dreams are lovely but they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But 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

"Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life."

- Tyler Perry

"Dreams are lovely, but they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But 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

"I'm always going to work like I have something to prove."

- Drake

"We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the Garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest."

- Voltaire

"Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade."

- Rudyard Kipling

"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn"

- B.C. Forbes

"Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day."

- Dave Ramsey

"Be humble, be hungry, and always be the hardest worker in the room."

- Dwayne Johnson

"No great achiever –even those who made it seem easy –ever succeeded without hard work."

- Jonathan Sack

"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

"It's not about money or connection —it's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone."

- Mark Cuban