Inspiring Dedication: A Collection of Motivational Quotes

"Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you."

- John Wooden

"Perseverance is stubbornness with a purpose."

- Josh Shipp

"When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses – only results."

- Kenneth Blanchard

"Commitment is essential to developing deep bonds and producing extraordinary results."

- Michael Hyatt

"Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"True commitment begins when we reach the point of not knowing how we can possibly go on, and decide to do it anyway."

- Robert Brault

"If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider."

- Joyce Brothers

"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear."

- Sammy Davis Jr.

"Commitment turns a promise into reality with words that speak boldly of your intentions and actions that speak louder than words."

- Steve Brunkhorst

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

- Mario Andretti

"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort."

- Paul J. Meyer

"You are only as good as the commitments you make and keep."

- Patrick Lencioni

"Commit to your goals – once you have set your goals, you have to fully commit yourself towards achieving it."

- Mia Hamm

"I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is a step forward."

- Thomas Edison

"It’s not hard to make decisions once you know what your values are."

- Roy Disney

"Commitment is an act of maturity. It’s the ability to choose wisely and follow through."

- Dr. David Hawkins

"Resolve and thou art free."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The depth of your commitment determines the breadth of your impact."

- William F. Halsey

"Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living."

- Robert Frost

"Make a commitment to your dreams and you will start seeing them unfold in your life."

- Les Brown

"Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort, even the difficult may become easy."

- Bill Blackman

"Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and he will establish your plans."

- Proverb

"The start always requires the greatest effort."

- James Cash Penney

"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools."

- Confucius

"Diligence is the key to success."

- William Shakespeare

"What we hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence."

- Samuel Johnson

"The hand of the diligent will rule."

- Proverbs (Bible)

"It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom."

- Aristotle

"Care and diligence bring luck."

- Thomas Fuller

"Without diligence, no price is low enough."

- Robert Half

"Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence."

- Seneca

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill."

- Samuel Johnson

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration."

- Willie Sutton

"Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains."

- William Penn

"Diligence wins more often than luck or genius."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Perseverance is a great substitute for talent."

- Steve Martin

"Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The difference between try and triumph is a little umph."

- Marvin Phillips

"The secret of our success is that we never, never give up."

- Wilma Mankiller

"Without perseverance, talent is a barren bed."

- Welsh Proverb

"What you endure is who you are. And if you just quit because you got tired, stretch out a bit and wait because you might just have something left."

- Craig Venter

"There is no armor like perseverance."

- Sogyal Rinpoche

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

- Julie Andrews

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"Determination gets you a long way."

- Michelle Obama

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

- Jim Rohn

"Self-command is the main discipline."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"With self-discipline most anything is possible."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The first and best victory is to conquer self."

- Plato

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."

- George Washington

"He who lives without discipline dies without honor."

- Icelandic Proverb

"Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."

- Jim Rohn

"Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing."

- John C. Maxwell

"The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline."

- Bum Phillips

"Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Discipline is remembering what you want."

- David Campbell

"Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability."

- Roy L. Smith

"Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear—and doubt."

- H.A. Dorfman

"By constant self-discipline and self-control, you can develop greatness of character."

- Grenville Kleiser

"I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one."

- Nikola Tesla

"Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do."

- Napoleon Hill

"Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure."

- Jim Rohn

"Rule your mind or it will rule you."

- Gautama Buddha

"Without discipline, there’s no life at all."

- Katharine Hepburn

"It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through."

- Zig Ziglar

"Discipline yourself, and others won’t need to."

- John Wooden

"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"The pain of self-discipline will never be as great as the pain of regret."

- Sarah Bombell

"Self-discipline is the magic power that makes you virtually unstoppable."

- Dan S. Kennedy

"Discipline is the part of success."

- Shiv Khera

"Discipline and commitment is the pathway to reach goals and dreams."

- Dr. Anil Kr Sinha

"Success disciplines your mind, which makes it sharper, calmer, and more effective."

- Maxime Lagacé

"Make yourself do what needs to be done when it needs to be done."

- William James

"One discipline always leads to another discipline."

- Jim Rohn

"Without hard work and discipline, it is difficult to be a top professional."

- Jahangir Khan

"The essence of self-discipline is to do the important thing rather than the urgent thing."

- Barry Werner

"Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage."

- Robin Sharma

"The disciplined mind is the most powerful mind."

- Nick Saban

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first."

- Harry S. Truman

"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Freedom is born of self-discipline. The undisciplined man is a slave to his own weaknesses."

- Alan Valentine

"Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don’t talk back."

- W.K. Hope

"No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

"If we don’t discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us."

- William Feather

"A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind."

- Edmund Spenser

"Discipline is the mark of intelligent living."

- Sathya Sai Baba

"Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It requires you to connect today’s actions to tomorrow’s results. There’s a season for sowing and a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable."

- Paramahansa Yogananda

"Keep on going, and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it."

- Charles F. Kettering

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Stowe

"The most certain way to succeed is to just try one more time."

- Thomas Edison

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."

- Elbert Hubbard

"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Success is the result of a clear, consistent, long-term effort."

- Mark Twain

"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting."

- Napoleon Hill

"Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel."

- Napoleon Hill

"The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Robert Collier

"Perseverance is a great element of success; if you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems."

- Gever Tulley

"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

- Walter Elliot

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"There is no defeat except for those who give up."

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

"What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

- Aristotle

"No great achievement is possible without persistent work."

- Bertrand Russell

"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."

- Gautama B.

"To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"Never stop. One stops as soon as something is about to happen."

- Peter Brock

"Keep going! Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end."

- Roy T. Bennett

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."

- Chinese Proverb

"To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles."

- T.F. Hodge

"Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying."

- Roy T. Bennett

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

- John Quincy Adams

"Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes."

- Liza M. Wiemer

"As long as there’s breath in You – PERSIST!"

- Bernard Kelvin Clive

"To achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must become someone that you have never been before."

- Les Brown

"Press on – nothing can take the place of persistence."

- Calvin Coolidge

"Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time."

- Marabel Morgan

"Commitment is the ignitor of momentum."

- Peg Wood

"There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out."

- Pat Riley

"Commitment is an act, not a word."

- Jean-Paul Sartre

"Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer."

- Marcia Wieder

"Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose – and commit myself to – what is best for me."

- Paulo Coelho

"Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it’s a relationship, a business or a hobby."

- Neil Strauss

"The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment."

- Drake

"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans."

- Peter Drucker

"Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the right stuff to turn our dreams into reality."

- James Womack

"Commitment is the glue that bonds you to your goals."

- Jill Koenig

"Commitment is the foundation of great accomplishments."

- Heidi Reeder

"The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."

- Vince Lombardi

"Without labor nothing prospers."

- Sophocles

"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."

- Robert Hall

"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Don't ever give up. Don't ever give in. Don't ever stop trying. Don't ever sell out. And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off. But never, ever, ever give up."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"Dedicate yourself to what gives your life true meaning and purpose; make a positive difference in someone's life."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication."

- Gail Devers

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

"Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement."

- Arnold Palmer

"Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential."

- Winston Churchill

"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach."

- Tony Robbins

"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."

- Tony Robbins

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

- David Sarnoff

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

- James A. Michener

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Albert Einstein

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you are tired of doing the hard work you already did."

- Newt Gingrich

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence."

- Jim Watkins

"Perseverance, the secret of all triumphs."

- Victor Hugo

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."

- Christopher Morley

"The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come."

- James Whitcomb Riley

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."

- William Feather

"Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

- Napoleon Hill

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

- Calvin Coolidge

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world, all rests on perseverance."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance."

- Lou Holtz

"Never, never, never give up."

- Winston Churchill

"Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down."

- Charles F. Kettering

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

- Thomas Paine

"I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again."

- Richard Branson

"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."

- Steve Jobs

"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."

- Pele

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

"Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

- Beverly Sills

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard."

- Tim Notke

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

"It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed."

- Mark Warner

"The only genius that’s worth anything is the genius for hard work."

- Kathleen Winsor

"Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work."

- Horace

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having, except as a result of hard work."

- Booker T. Washington

"Nothing replaces hard work. The harder you work, the luckier you get."

- Ed Schultz

"Diligence is the master key that opens the gates of success."

- Robert Ringer

"There is no substitute for hard work. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really super-hard work, first in, last out."

- Mary Callahan Erdoes

"I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work."

- Pat Metheny

"Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way."

- John Wooden

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves--say rather, loved in spite of ourselves; the conviction the blind have."

- Victor Hugo

"With a growth mindset, kids don’t necessarily think that there’s no such thing as talent or that everyone is the same, but they believe everyone can develop their abilities through hard work, strategies, and lots of help and mentoring from others."

- Carol Dweck

"Hard work always pays off, whatever you do."

- Dustin Lynch

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Most of us understand that your future is not promised to you. It is constructed day by day, through the choices you make. Your future is earned, little by little, through hard work and action. If you don’t act accordingly, that dream dissolves."

- Chanel Miller

"Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success."

- Diana Rankin

"There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting."

- Hope Hicks

"If you’re not willing to put in the hard work, to endure and fail, there’s no point. You win only if you’re willing to do whatever it takes."

- Hidilyn Diaz

"The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don’t necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars of startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work, and determination."

- Bill Rancic

"Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise."

- Frank Ocean

"I’m not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck."

- Prabal Gurung

"Keep your dreams alive. Understand, to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe."

- Gail Devers

"If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires."

- Malcolm Gladwell

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

- Peter Drucker

"A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don’t have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perseverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough."

- Robert Kraft

"Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile."

- Dean Kamen

"Know that even when you want to give up or throw in the towel, in the end, it will all be worth the hard work."

- Ashton Eaton

"Confidence comes by practice. It doesn’t happen overnight. Nothing happens without hard work."

- Seve Ballesteros

"Hard work eliminates fear. That’s how I think."

- Romelu Lukaku

"I’m working hard. I’m putting in the hard work. I’m sacrificing. I ain’t asking for no handouts. I’m going to earn everything I’m given."

- Max Holloway

"I’ve heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I’ve never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work."

- Uzo Aduba

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal — a commitment to excellence — that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

- Mario Andretti

"Stay focused and stay determined. Don’t look to anyone else to be your determination – have self-determination. It will take you very far."

- Justice Smith

"Inspiration is one thing and you can’t control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work."

- Kevin Eubanks

"If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it. Ambition by itself never gets anywhere until it forms a partnership with work."

- James A. Garfield

"Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is ‘The X Factor.’ Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work."

- Iain Duncan Smith

"I don’t rely on feng shui. I believe hard work brings us good luck and success."

- John Gokongwei

"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work."

- Colin Powell

"If a man is diligent in his work, he will stand before kings."

- Proverbs (Bible)

"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."

- Margaret Mead

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

- Jimmy Johnson

"There’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there."

- Joyce Chapman

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

- Harry Golden

"Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Hard work always wins in the end."

- Lucas Till

"If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat."

- Herschel Walker

"Hard work pays off — hard work beats talent any day, but if you’re talented and work hard, it’s hard to be beat."

- Robert Griffin III

"You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."

- Ed Cole

"The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest."

- Deepika Padukone

"Measure your success by what you had to give up in order to get it."

- Dalai Lama

"Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Luck is great, but most of life is hard work."

- Iain Duncan Smith

"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

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

- Stephen King

"The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose."

- Ernie Banks

"Sow diligence and reap success."

- Chinese Proverb

"Opportunities are for those who are prepared."

- Louis Pasteur

"The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied."

- Proverbs (Bible)

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort."

- John Ruskin

"The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Diligence should be your watchword. Whatever you do, do well, and may success attend your efforts."

- Charles Simmons

"Industriousness is the key to success and prosperity."

- Eesha Kumar

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune."

- Miguel de Cervantes

"The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory."

- Ted Engstrom

"God sells us all things at the price of labor."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."

- Thomas Foxwell Buxton

"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt."

- Robert M. Pirsig

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them."

- Ann Landers

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The world belongs to the energetic."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus."

- Helen Hanson

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

- Samuel Johnson

"Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people."

- Mihai Eminescu

"Persistence is a key element to any success."

- Ernie Banks

"Diligence and accuracy are the only magic keys to success."

- Charles Babbage

"Let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice."

- Beyonce Knowles

"Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit."

- Helena Rubinstein

"No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic."

- John Kenneth Galbraith

"Work is the sustenance of noble minds."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Everyone is looking for the hack, the secret to success without hard work."

- Sam Altwoman

"We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Hard work doesn’t start during the game. Hard work starts the night before."

- Ken Griffey Jr.

"There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success."

- Heather Bresch

"If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it."

- James A. Garfield

"We should celebrate when optimism and hard work triumph over cynicism, lethargy, and fatalism."

- Sadiq Khan

"I instilled in my children the importance of good values in business: hard work, determination, integrity, and optimism."

- Henry Sy

"There’s no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you — unless your potion is hard work."

- Jeffrey Gitomer

"The only constant I can find is hard work."

- Paul Dano

"I’ve always been taught that hard work doesn’t fail."

- Zach LaVine

"What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it."

- Jesse Helms

"Persistence and endurance will make you omnipotent."

- Casey Neistat

"Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now."

- Steven Wright

"I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life’s problems."

- James Cash Penney

"Whatever you go into, you have to go in there to be the best. There’s no formula. It’s all about passion and honesty and hard work. It might look glamorous, but it takes a lot of hard work."

- Hugh Masekela

"Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine."

- George Gurdjieff

"Do everything with so much love and vigor that you would never do it otherwise."

- Hildegard of Bingen

"Only the diligent finder makes important discoveries."

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

"I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: If you do not rise early, you can make progress in nothing."

- William Pitt Chatham

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

- Joseph Joubert

"Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves."

- Lord Chesterfield

"By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable."

- Benjamin Franklin

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- Jen Campbell

"Idle folks lack no excuses."

- Proverbs (Bible)

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

- Louis Pasteur

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out."

"I never dreamed about success, I worked for it."

"With zeal and with the utmost of the best that is in me, I shall strive for the eternal goals of Truth and Right."

"Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock."

"Diligence conquers fear."

"Dedication and hard work are the bricks that build success."

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

"Sharp diligence is the path to the mountain top."

"Keep pushing forward and don’t give up!"

"If you want to be successful, you must commit to your own greatness and embrace all the pain that comes with it."

"Discipline not desire determines your destiny."

"The only real measure of commitment is action."

"An ounce of commitment is worth pounds of promises."

"True commitment is very rare, and it goes beyond the surface level of mere promises."

"The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’ – the pig was ‘committed’."

"Chaos is the enemy of success. Be diligent and focused."

"Good things come to those who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them."

"Commitment is the spark that ignites action. Without it, you have nothing but unfulfilled potential."

"Discipline is the key to success, and successful people exercise discipline in everything they do."

"Self-discipline is that mental state of commitment, which gets you performing an activity regardless of your feelings."

- Unknown

"Commitment is the key to unlocking the door of innovation."

"Discipline yourself to do the things you love to do when you don’t feel like doing them."

- Unknown

"Diligence increases the chance of serendipity occurring."

"There can be no life without commitment."

"The root of all achievement is commitment."

"In the diligent pursuit of goals, great men show true valor."

"The committed mind does not falter or seek escape; it engages fully and sees things through."

"Commitment is the little choices every day that lead to the final results we’re striving for."

"Commit yourself to something bigger than yourself."

"Commitment is the component of love."

"Commitment means staying loyal to what you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you."

"Commit to what you love – that’s real power."