100+ Inspirational Quotes for Hard Work to Motivate Your Success Journey

""Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.""

- Ray Kroc

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- David Bly

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Robert Hall

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

- Colin Powell

""Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.""

- Sam Ewing

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

- Robert Collier

""If you trust in yourself… and believe in your dreams… and follow your star… you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.""

- Terry Pratchett

"Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success."

- Virat Kohli

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

- Thomas Edison

"There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits."

- Michael Phelps

"You just can’t beat the person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about."

- Winston Churchill

""Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.""

- Mary Holloway

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

- Bill Bradley

""What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.""

- Roy T. Bennett

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

"The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress."

- Dan Waldschmidt

"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence."

- Calvin Coolidge

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

- Julie Andrews

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

- Aristotle

"Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They’re realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus & hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks."

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Walter Elliot

"To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work."

- Sister Mary Lauretta

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Louis Pasteur

""A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.""

- B.F. Skinner

"Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything."

- Patrick Suskind

"When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity."

- Steve Pavlina

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

- Thomas Edison

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."

- Vincent van Gogh

"A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks."

- Thurgood Marshall

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

- George Lorimer

"Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

- Madam C.J. Walker

"If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit."

- Banksy

"Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Dreams are lovely. But they are dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen."

- Shonda Rhimes

"It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone."

- Mark Cuban

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

- Michelangelo

"Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there."

- Haile Gebrselassie

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

- Frank Ocean

"You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic."

- Zig Ziglar

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

"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

"Without labor nothing prospers."

- Sophocles

"He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest."

- Dylan Thomas

"Work is the best friend I have ever known. It has brought me all the good things I have had."

- John Soforic

"When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Work hard and be kind and amazing things will happen."

- Conan O'Brien

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It’s the best part of the day."

- George Allen, Sr.

"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

""Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.""

- Thomas Edison

"I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."

- George Burns

""Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.""

- Og Mandino

"It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

- Rumi

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

""Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.""

- Helen Keller

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."

- Buddha

""The most important characteristics you need to succeed in business are resilience, determination and persistence.""

- Karren Brady

"To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth."

- Pearl S. Buck

"If you love your work, you’ll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you — like a fever."

- Sam Walton

""A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.""

- George M. Moore Jr.

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

- Jim Rohn

"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be."

- Zig Ziglar

""Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.""

- Malcolm Forbes

"All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point."

- Eric Thomas

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

- Frank Ocean

"Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

- Dale Carnegie

"Self-Belief and hard work will always earn you success."

- Virat Kohli

"Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world."

- Hill Harper

"If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way."

- Jane Goodall

""Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.""

- Confucius

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

- William Feather

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."

- Ray Kroc

""Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.""

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Deepika Padukone

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are Hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense."

- Thomas Edison

""Successful people demonstrate their resilience through their dedication to making progress every day, even if that progress is marginal.""

- Jonathan Mills

"There is no magic to achievement. It’s really about hard work, choices, and persistence."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Tim Notke

""Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.""

- Winston Churchill

"Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion."

- Simon Sinek

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

- Dustin Lynch

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

- Booker T. Washington

""Don’t count the days, make the days count.""

- Muhammad Ali

"With hard work and dedication, anything is possible."

- Timothy Weah

"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

"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

""It’s not the hours you put in your work that counts, it’s the work you put in the hours.""

- Sam Ewing

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."

- Jesse Owens

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work."

- Joseph Barbara

"You can’t just will your dreams to come true. You have to work hard. You have to give ’em wings, arms, legs…whatever it takes to make your dreams come true."

- Dolly Parton

"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

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

- Colin Powell

"Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference."

- Lou Holtz

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."

- Walt Disney

""When you think of quitting, remember why you started!""

- John Di Lemme

""Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow.'""

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Estée Lauder

"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

"Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results. It produces no results. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last."

- Hamilton Holt

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

- Tim Notke

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

- Colin Powell

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

- Colin Powell

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Jonathan Sacks

""Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.""

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Heather Bresch

"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

"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence."

- Colin Powell

"Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren’t sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better."

- John Carmack

"There is no royal road to any learning, no matter what it is. There is no royal road to any righteous living, no matter who you are or what you are. There is no royal road to anything that is worthwhile. Nothing that is deserving of earning or of cherishing comes except through hard work. I care not how much of a genius you may be, the rule will still hold."

- J. Reuben Clark Jr.

"Work hard in silence, let success make the noise."

- Frank Ocean

"Dreams don’t work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Ann Landers

"Success is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

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

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"Dedication and hard work are what make your dreams come true."

- Kerry King

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

- Newt Gingrich

""Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.""

- Bobby Unser

"It’s perseverance that’s the key. It’s persevering for long enough to achieve your potential."

- Lynn Davies

"Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."

- Thomas Carlyle

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."

- Napoleon Hill

"The most important characteristics you need to succeed in business are resilience, determination, and persistence."

- Karren Brady

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

- Helen Keller

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

- Jeffrey Gitomer

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Persistence and endurance will make you omnipotent."

- Casey Neistat

"If you work really hard, and you’re kind, amazing things will happen."

- Conan O'Brien

"To bring one’s self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy."

- Thomas A. Buckner

"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

"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."

- Margaret Thatcher

"It takes hard work, dedication, discipline, and a positive attitude to get to the top — in business or in sports."

- George Blanda

"Hard work most often leads to success, but it’s not every day, and it’s not every week. It will pay off at different times over the course of your career."

- Sallie Krawcheck

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

- Steven Wright

"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

"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

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

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference."

- Lou Holtz

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

- Babe Ruth

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Kathleen Winsor

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

- Ken Griffey Jr.

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

- Zach LaVine

"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

"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

"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 opportunity is and what isn’t."

- Lucille Ball

"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

"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

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

- Ed Schultz

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity."

- Josh Waitzkin

"Talent! There’s no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way."

- Winslow Homer

"I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it."

- J. Cole

"If you have a dream, it’s definitely achievable through hard work, through dedication, sacrifice, everything."

- Carli Lloyd

"I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"How long you can continue to be good at something is how much you believe in yourself and how much hard work you do with the training."

- Jason Statham

"Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare — and special — human beings who use the fullness of their talents to do their very best."

- Robin Sharma

"The basic skills of leaders are always the same: be driven by a deeper purpose, be a human being, have a passion for what you do, and it’s also about hard work and ethics."

- Paul Polman

"Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Margaret Mead

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

- John Kenneth Galbraith

"Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but without it, you don’t have a chance."

- Alex Rodriguez

"To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all."

- Mark Sullivan

"Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business."

- Richard Branson

"In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it."

- Steven Wright

"The three ordinary things that we often don’t pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty."

- Azim Premji

"At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have shown tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria — the growth and success of the business."

- Susan Wojcicki

"Super-success is not for everyone, and you will endure weeks and months and years of hard work, obstacles, failures, victories, pain, and any manner of ‘negative’ experiences to reap the rewards of success, drink from the golden goblet, own the brass ring."

- Dan Pena

"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking shortcuts."

- Roger Staubach

"There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it is always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time."

- Lauren Conrad

"Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work."

- William Feather

"No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance."

- Ramana Maharshi

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

- Booker T. Washington

"That was my way of getting through difficult times of low confidence — hard work."

- David Beckham

"The dream doesn’t lie in victimization or blame, it lies in hard work, determination, and a good education."

- Alphonso Jackson

"I think people really underestimate the power of just wanting to do it, and hard work, and competitive spirit, and preparation."

- Joe Burrow

"The simple truth is that in order to become good, you have to be obsessed. You have to put in an awful lot of time and hard work and couple that with desire and unflagging perseverance."

- Yngwie Malmsteen

"We truly believe with hard work, dedication, and perseverance, we can become the best at what we do. No one wants to become mediocre."

- Andy Biersack

"I’ve always been someone who has been very driven. I think my circumstances, how I grew up, hard work and work ethic are absolutely vital to any success that people might have, regardless of what they might be doing."

- Jerry West

"I sometimes compare starting a business to having a child. You have a moment of profound inspiration, followed by months of thankless hard work and waking up in the middle of the night."

- Andrew Yang

""The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.""

- Stephen Covey

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

- Harry Golden

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

- Jonathan Sacks

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

- Calvin Coolidge

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

- Beverly Sills

"If you can’t fly, then run; if you can’t run, then walk; if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

- Steve Jobs

"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

"Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard."

- George Lucas

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Stephen King

"Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all you heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

- Dale Carnegie

"When I meet successful people, I ask about 100 questions to find out who they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people."

- Kiana To

"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

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all."

- Sam Ewing

"Without labor, nothing prospers."

- Sophocles

"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself."

- Alan Alda

"Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you’re going to perform, you’ve already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself."

- Usain Bolt

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

- Seneca

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Stephen King

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

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

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

- Ann Landers

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

- Steve Jobs

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs."

- Malcolm Forbes

"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Peter Drucker

"Perseverance, the secret of all triumphs."

- Victor Hugo

"Difficulties strengthen the mind as labor does the body."

- Seneca

"Do not fear failure but fear not trying."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Do not give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."

- Sam Ewing

"The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream."

- Tommy Hilfiger

"Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams."

- Ben Carson

"Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle."

- Ross Simmonds

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

- Horace

"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

""Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.""

- Helen Keller

""The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.""

- Charles Dickens

""Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.""

- Coco Chanel

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

- Robert F. Kennedy

""The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.""

- Robert Jordan

""Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.""

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Walter Elliot

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Aristotle

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today."

- Pope Paul VI

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

- Iain Duncan Smith

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

- Napoleon Hill

"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job."

- Michael Larsen

"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."

- Tony Robbins

""Either you run the day or the day runs you.""

- Jim Rohn

"Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

- Saint Francis

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

""The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.""

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."

- Luther Campbell

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

- Jimmy Johnson

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

"Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done."

- Robin Sharma

"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

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day."

- George Allen, Sr.

"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

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

- Beyonce Knowles

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

- Tommy Lasorda

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

- Prabal Gurung

"The time is past when anyone can boast about ‘hard work’ without having a corresponding result to show for it."

- Henry Ford

"Hard work — I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn’t fly. It’s all in the practice. It does take work and it ain’t easy — but man, the rewards!"

- Susan Powter

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

- Romelu Lukaku

"A lot of people mistake habit for hard work. Doing something over and over again is not working hard."

- Shannon Sharpe

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

- Sam Levenson

""For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.""

- Benjamin Franklin

"With confidence, you have won before you have started."

- Marcus Garvey

"Respect and consistency, as hard work during the week is the only way to earn your place."

- Gennaro Gattuso

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as a nation, and it’s a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy."

- Mike Rowe

"If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger."

- Hubert H. Humphrey

"Work is the sustenance of noble minds."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- James A. Garfield

"We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future."

- Mike Rounds

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Jesse Helms

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

- Helena Rubinstein

"You can learn what you want to learn through hard work. And a good employer will teach you what you want to learn as long as you show the right attitude and behaviors."

- Gerald Chertavian

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

- John Gokongwei

"Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself."

- Alan Alda

"I’m proud of my hard work. Working hard won’t always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I’ve wanted that I haven’t always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally."

- Tamron Hall

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

- Henry Sy

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

- Albert Einstein

"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were."

- David Rockefeller

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

- Paul Dano

"Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work."

- Anna Pavlova

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."

- Arnold H. Glasow

"I believe that we all have a responsibility to give back. No one becomes successful without lots of hard work, support from others, and a little luck. Giving back creates a virtuous cycle that makes everyone more successful."

- Ron Conway

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

- Charles Kingsley

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

- Sam Altwoman

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

- Tony Robbins

"I’m not afraid of hard work. I like it! It’s the other bit — the not working — I find more problematic. If I’m not busy, I just get antsy. I’ve been this way since I was a child. Sitting still is like torture for me."

- Pixie Lott

"The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!"

- Marvin Phillips

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be."

- Rosalynn Carter

"Life is about making an impact, not making an income."

- Kevin Kruse

"Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

"Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you."

- Stephen Covey

"It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit."

- Harry S. Truman

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

- African Proverb

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."

- Arthur Ashe

"The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."

- George S. Halas

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

- Henry Ford

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Work hard, have fun, make history."

- Jeff Bezos

"How wonderful it is that nobody needs wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

""Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?""

- Edgar Bergen

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

- Sadiq Khan

""I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.""

- L'Wren Scott

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

- James Cash Penney

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds."

"The greater the effort, the greater the glory."

"I've always had a great work ethic, even when I was washing dishes."

"Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life."