Hard work generally involves physical, mental, or emotional effort, high levels of focus, and purpose. The meaning of hard work is constantly, regularly, or habitually engaged in earnest and energetic work: industrious, diligent.
Quotes On Hard Work
1. “With hard work and effort, you can achieve anything.”
– Antoine Griezmann
2. “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”
– Gordon B. Hinckley
3. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”
– Tim Notke
4. “Work harder than you think you did yesterday.”
– Alex Elle
5. “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
6. “Hard work is an essential element in tracking down and perfecting a strategy or in executing it.”
– Charlie Munger
7. “Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.”
– Iain Duncan Smith
8. “Work and you’ll get what you need; work harder and you’ll get what you want.”
– Prabakaran Thirumalai
9. “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
10. “Hard work compounds like interest, and the earlier you do it, the more time you have for the benefits to pay off.”
– Sam Altman
11. “Without labor, nothing prospers”
– Sophocles
12. “It’s not about money or connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.”
– Mark Cuban
13. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson
14. “Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No Excuses.”
– Kobe Bryant
15. “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”
– Peter F. Drucker
16. “A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.”
– Ralph Lauren
17. “Men die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease. They do not die of hard work.”
– David Ogilvy
18. “Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.”
– Proverbs 6:6, ESV
19. “I never took a day off in my 20s. Not one.”
– Bill Gates
20. “Hard work betrays none.”
– Hachiman Hikigaya
21. “Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”
– Patrick Suskind
22. “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
23. “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
24. “No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.”
– Anthony Bourdain
25. “Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.”
– Joseph Barbera
26. “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
27. “Much effort, much prosperity.”
– Euripides
28. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
– Stephen King
29. “A sign of hard worker is one who works without complaint.”
– Sarah Price
30. “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
31. “To succeed, work hard, never give up, and above all, cherish a magnificent obsession.”
– Walt Disney
32. “Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.”
– Virat Kohli
33. “Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.”
– G.K. Neilson
34. “When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity.”
– Steve Pavlina
35. “Don’t work for recognition but do work worthy of recognition.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
36. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
– Newt Gingrich
37. “What you don’t sweat out when you’re young will turn into tears when you’re old.”
– Japanese Proverb
38. “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”
– Dwayne Johnson
39. “If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.”
– Jim Rohn
40. “Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich.”
– Jim Carrey
41. “Without hard work and discipline, it is difficult to be a top professional.”
– Jahangir Khan
42. “If you can’t excel with talent, triumph with effort.”
– Dave Weinbaum
43. “If you work hard enough and assert yourself and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.”
– Malcolm Gladwell
44. “The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.”
– Proverbs 13:4, ESV
45. “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
46. “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
47. “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
48. “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
49. “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
50. “Work hard, have fun, make history.”
– Jeff Bezos
51. “Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”
– Booker T. Washington
52. “If you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from, what you look like or who you love.”
– Barak Obama
53. “If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.”
– Michelangelo
54. “Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They’re realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus, and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.”
– Elbert Hubbard
55. “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
56. “Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.”
– Ed Bradley
57. “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
58. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
59. “People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.”
– Frederick Douglass
60. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
– Gen. Colin Powell
61. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
– Thomas Edison
62. “If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.”
– Ben Hogan
63. “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
64. “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
65. “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 to work, realize it is played.”
– Alan Watts
66. “The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn’t prepared to work for.”
– Habeeb Akande
67. “The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is to get your hands dirty.”
– Alex Spannos
68. “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
69. “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.”
– Gary Vaynerchuk
70. “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
71. “Every beautiful mind has great dreams, but rarely is anyone ever ready to work hard for their dreams.”
– Terry Mark
72. “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
73. “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
74. “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.
75. “You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.”
– Irish Proverb
76. “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius
77. “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
78. “There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”
– Calvin Coolidge
79. “The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day.”
– Wayne Gretzky
