What is hard work? It’s one of the few things in your business or career that you have total control over. More often than not, hard work has the ability to out perform talent. I’ve observed this saying to be true in my own life on more than one occasion.

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If you need a pick-me-up to inspire and motivate you to work even harder, I share caption ideas and quotes that can help.

Hard Work Captions

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  • All good work requires self-revelation.
  • All great things in life are hard to achieve, and if you shy away from hard work and challenges, you’ll miss out.
  • Do all the work you can, while there is grace of strength.
  • Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.
  • Even a low-class warrior can surpass an elite, with enough hard work
  • Genius is 10% talent and 90% hard work
  • Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.
  • Hard work beats talent, when talent doesn’t work hard
  • Hard work is a prison only if it does not have meaning
  • Hard work is even more pleasing in the rich, whereas laziness is even more disgusting in the poor.
  • Hard work is never a punishment.
  • Hard work isn’t a punishment; it’s a gift.
  • Hard work makes you feel good because you have accomplished something.
  • Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
  • If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.
  • If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault.
  • If you worked hard, then everything will be fine.
  • Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.
  • Inspiration works if you work.
  • It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
  • It’s not about working hard. It’s about what we’re working hard at.
  • Many a man wants glory but fails to work.
  • Overworking is the Black Plague of the 21st Century.
  • Painful workouts yield gainful results. This is true of every gain. No pain, no gain.
  • Sometimes there’s not a better way. Sometimes there’s only the hard way.
  • The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
  • The sweet smell of success comes on the back of the stench of hard-earned sweat.
  • The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness third, common sense.
  • The wise rest at least as hard as they work.
  • There are no seasons of life that don’t require hard work and determination to accomplish something great.
  • There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
  • When you truly love what you do, not working is hard work.
  • You cannot reach success only by working hard, you also need to be working smart.

Hard Work Quotes

  • A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things. – Ralph Lauren
  • A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint. – Sarah Price
  • Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing. – Thomas Jefferson
  • Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. – Proverbs 6:6, ESV
  • Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No Excuses. – Kobe Bryant
  • Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work. – Joseph Barbara
  • Hard work betrays none. – Hachiman Hikigaya
  • Hard work compounds like interest, and the earlier you do it, the more time you have for the benefits to pay off. – Sam Altman
  • Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. – Malcolm Gladwell
  • Hard work is an essential element in tracking down and perfecting a strategy or in executing it. – Charlie Munger
  • 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
  • I never took a day off in my 20s. Not one. – Bill Gates
  • I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. – Thomas Jefferson
  • If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level 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 connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone. – Mark Cuban
  • Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. – Iain Duncan Smith
  • Men die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease. They do not die of hard work. – David Ogilvy
  • Much effort, much prosperity. – Euripides
  • No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American. – Anthony Bourdain
  • Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. – Peter F. Drucker
  • Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. – Stephen King
  • Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything. – Patrick Suskind
  • We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in. ~ Ariana Huffington
  • 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
  • With hard work and effort, you can achieve anything. – Antoine Griezmann
  • Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. – Gordon B. Hinckley
  • Without labor, nothing prospers. – Sophocles
  • Work and you’ll get what you need; work harder and you’ll get what you want. – Prabakaran Thirumalai
  • Work harder than you think you did yesterday. – Alex Elle

Hard Work Pays Off Quotes

What it looks like when hard work finally pays off.

  • A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.
  • A good lover? One percent talent and ninety nine percent hard work
  • A great sense of commitment builds a hardworking spirit
  • Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
  • Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
  • Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.
  • Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard.
  • Hard work is a necessity of today in order to live a great life tomorrow
  • Hard work is one of the greatest principles which I have carefully guided my life by.
  • Hard work is the secret of being a genius
  • Hard work is vital to success. As long as it’s in the right direction
  • 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
  • I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the mor