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 more I have of it.
  • If you do not work hard, nothing works
  • If you work hard, you will be rewarded at the end of the day.
  • It always seems impossible until it’s done.
  • It’s not about how bad you want it. It’s about how hard you’re willing to work for it.
  • It’s not going to be easy, but it’s going to be worth it.
  • Life has two rules: 1) Never quit. 2) Always remember Rule #1.
  • Making a name for yourself comes from working hard
  • Maximize the time you have through hard work, concentration and research
  • Men die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease. They do not die of hard work.
  • No matter how hard you work, someone else is working harder.
  • Nothing Can Beat Hard Work, But Hard Work Itself
  • Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work
  • Poverty must be erased by hard work
  • Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.
  • Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.
  • Some people dream of accomplishing great things. Others stay awake and make it happen.
  • Strive for progress, not perfection.
  • Success is built on hard work, the right hard work itself is success.
  • Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
  • The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping-stone is how high you raise your foot.
  • The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little “extra.”
  • The expert in everything was once a beginner.
  • The gospel of the kingdom is about hard work.
  • The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
  • The pain you feel today is the strength you will feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.
  • The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
  • There is no substitute for hard work.
  • Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
  • Work hard, work hard, and work harder
  • You don’t always get what you wish for; you get what you work for.
  • You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
  • You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Confidence and Hard Work Quotes

Have confidence in your work.

  • A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work. ~ Colin Powell
  • Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. ~ Oprah Winfrey
  • Great companies are built in the office, with hard work put in by a team. ~ Emily Chang
  • Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers. ~ Pat Riley
  • Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard. ~ Tim Notke
  • I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. ~ Booker T. Washington
  • I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
  • I never took a day off in my 20s. Not one. ~ Bill Gates
  • I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard. ~ Maria Bartiromo

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  • I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
  • If you are willing to work hard and ask lots of questions, you can learn business pretty fast. ~ Steve Jobs
  • 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
  • In the end, all business operation can be reduced to three words: people, products, and profits. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two. ~ Lee Iacocca
  • Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. ~ Dale Carnegie

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

  • Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. ~ Ray Kroc
  • Men die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease. They do not die of hard work. ~ David Ogilvy
  • No matter how hard you work, someone else is working harder. ~ Elon Musk
  • Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. ~ Henry Ford
  • Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
  • Success is best when it’s shared. ~ Howard Schultz
  • Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work. ~ Stephen King
  • Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. ~ Andrew Carnegie
  • The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison. ~ J.C. Penney
  • The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action. ~ Alexander Graham Bell
  • The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~ Vidal Sassoon
  • 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
  • The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense. ~ Thomas Edison

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime. ~ Babe Ruth

  • There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. ~ Colin Powell
  • There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. ~ Coco Chanel
  • Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. ~ Henry Ford
  • 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
  • Without labor, nothing prospers. ~ Sophocles
  • Work hard, have fun, make history. ~ Jeff Bezos
  • Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success. ~ Thomas J. Watson

Hard Work Quotes for Students

  • A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood. – Gen. George Patton
  • Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. – Joshua J. Marine
  • Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice. – Henry Ford
  • Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. – Malcolm Forbes
  • Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden
  • Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
  • Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better. – Jim Rohn
  • Dreams don’t work unless you do. – John C. Maxwell
  • Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. – Henry Ford
  • Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. – Thomas Edison
  • Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. – Robert Half
  • I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits the bottom. – George S. Patton
  • I don’t regret the things I’ve done. I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.
  • I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. – Thomas Jefferson
  • I would rather risk wearing out than rusting out. – Teddy Roosevelt
  • I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax. – Abraham Lincoln

  • If it’s important to you, you’ll find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse. – Ryan Blair
  • If people only knew how hard I’ve worked to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. – Michelangelo
  • If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. – Steve Jobs
  • If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill
  • Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll. – Helen Hanson
  • Plough deep while sluggards sleep. – Benjamin Franklin
  • Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. – Arthur Ashe
  • Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted. – David Bly
  • Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. – Robert Collier
  • Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. – John Maxwell
  • The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. – Jimmy Johnson
  • The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph! – Marvin Phillips

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon

  • The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. – Harry Golden
  • The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well. – John D. Rockefeller
  • There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills
  • There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. – Zig Ziglar
  • There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. – Zig Ziglar
  • There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done and those who don’t want to make mistakes. – John Maxwell
  • There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas Edison
  • Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. – Henry Ford
  • When you do more than you’re paid for, eventually you’ll be paid for more than you do. – Zig Ziglar
  • Work smarter, not harder. – Allen F. Morgenstern
  • Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion. – Simon Sinek
  • You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. – Ed Cole

Inspiring Work Quotes

Getting results with a team.

  • A little more persistence a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn into a glorious success. – Elbert Hubbard
  • Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. – Stephen King
  • At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?’ – Marcus Aurelius
  • Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world. – Hill Harper
  • Destiny is for losers. It’s just a stupid excuse to wait for things to happen instead of making them happen. – Blair Waldorf
  • Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can. – Lowell Thomas
  • Go and get your things. Dreams mean work. – Paolo Coelho
  • 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 Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t. – Lucille Ball
  • I never viewed myself as particularly talented. Where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic. You know, while the other guy’s sleeping, I’m working. – Will Smith
  • If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard; you’ll be hard to beat. – Hershel Walker
  • Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. – Helen Hanson
  • Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it. – Madeleine L’Engle
  • It always seems impossible until it’s done. – Nelson Mandela
  • Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn’t what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You…Be Free…Share. – Steve Maraboli

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  • 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
  • Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. – Ann Landers
  • Sometimes there’s not a better way. Sometimes there’s only the hard way. – Mary E. Pearson
  • Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm, and genuine people. – Tena Desae
  • Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. – William Arthur Ward
  • The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. – Roger Bannister
  • The one thing that matters is the effort. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  • There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills
  • There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as an overnight success or easy money. – Henry Sy
  • There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits. – Michael Phelps
  • There’s no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. – Conor McGregor
  • Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. – Abraham Lincoln
  • Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams. – Ben Carson
  • Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men – Colossians 3:23, ESV
  • When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. – Jacob Riis
  • Work hard in silence, let success be your noise. – Frank Ocean
  • Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen. – Conan O’Brien

Hard Work Beats Talent Quotes

Push yourself.

  • A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have, in fact, used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard work is just as dysfunctional as the sloth. – Criss Jami
  • 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
  • Every beautiful mind has great dreams, but rarely is anyone ever ready to work hard for their dreams. – Terry Mark
  • I don’t like work – no man does – but I like what is in the work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself not for others – what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means. – Joseph Conrad
  • I never dreamed about success. I worked for it. – Estée Lauder
  • I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard. – Maria Bartiromo
  • I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. – Larry Bird
  • If you can’t outplay them, outwork them. – Ben Hogan
  • If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. – Olin Miller
  • It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. – Confucius
  • Leadership is more than just being able to cross the t’s and dot the i’s. It’s about character and integrity and work ethic. – Steven Largent
  • No matter what your field is, a strong work ethic is the key to doing well.
  • Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. – Mahatma Gandhi
  • The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. – Andrew Carnegie
  • The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty. – Alex Spannos
  • The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn’t prepared to work for. – Habeeb Akande
  • The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor. – Proverbs 12:24, ESV
  • The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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  • The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day – Wayne Gretzky
  • There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. – Calvin Coolidge
  • This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. – Alan Watts
  • To achieve what 1% of the world’s population has, you must be willing to do what only 1% dares to do. – Manoj Arora
  • Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • 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
  • Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far. – Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to try to take it all away from you. – Mark Cuban
  • Working hard is not just something you do, it’s something you embody on the inside and out.
  • 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
  • You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind. – Irish Proverb

Fruits of Hard Work Quotes

  • A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things. ~ Ralph Lauren
  • Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice. ~ Henry Ford
  • Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. ~ Malcolm Forbes
  • Entrepreneurship is a great leveler. The wonderful thing is that money is not the sole currency when it comes to starting a business; drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash. ~ Richard Branson
  • For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work. ~ Jessica Savitch
  • 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
  • I learned the value of hard work by working hard. ~ Margaret Mead
  • I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go about it, and make trial after trial until it comes. ~ Thomas Edison
  • I work hard because I love my work. ~ Bill Gates
  • I’m against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do. ~ Colonel Sanders
  • I’ve learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work. ~ Greg Behrendt
  • If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. ~ Steve Jobs
  • It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football. ~ Roger Staubach
  • 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
  • Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. ~ Calvin Coolidge
  • Sticking to good habits can be hard work, and mistakes are part of the process. Don’t declare failure simply because you messed up or because you’re having trouble reaching your goals. Instead, use your mistakes as opportunities to grow stronger and become better. ~ Amy Morin
  • 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
  • Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. ~ Winston S. Churchill
  • Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. ~ Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
  • Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. ~ Conrad Hilton
  • The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. ~ Andrew Carnegie
  • The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. ~ Bruce Lee

Short Hard Work Quotes

Be nice. Work hard.

  • A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint.
  • All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
  • Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
  • Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.
  • Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.
  • Everything you want is on the far side of hard work.
  • Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
  • Hard work betrays none.
  • Hard work never killed a man. Scottish proverb
  • If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.
  • Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus.
  • It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.
  • It’s only a crazy dream until you do it.
  • Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
  • Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel mine and coming out with empty hands.
  • Make each day your masterpiece.
  • My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
  • No one ever drowned in sweat. U.S. Marine Corps
  • No struggle, no progress, no success.
  • Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.
  • One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

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  • The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.
  • The ones who say you can’t are too afraid you will.
  • The wiser you get, the less you take yourself seriously, the more work looks like play.
  • The world belongs to the energetic.
  • There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
  • There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
  • There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony.
  • There’s no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession.
  • Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
  • To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
  • To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all, cherish a magnificent obsession.
  • What comes easy won’t last. What lasts won’t come easy.
  • When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really played.
  • When I was young, I thought success was solely attributed to talent.
  • When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity.
  • Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing.
  • Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.
  • Without labor nothing prospers.
  • Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.
  • Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

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