50 Quotes About Hard Work

Talent only goes so far, then hard work comes to play. Nothing worth while comes without hard work. No matter how hard you try to go the easy way out or move around the work, it will always have to be done sometime.

So why not start now! These motivational quotes on hard work will boost your step. Take them or leave them…but I would take them. Keep them close to your mind and start doing the hard work that you know needs to be done.

Here are 50 quotes on hard work.

1. Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. ~ Henry Ford
2. I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
3. Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard. ~ Tim Notke
4. 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
5. Hard work pays off. ~ Mat Fraser

1. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~ Vidal Sassoon
2. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease. They do not die of hard work. ~ David Ogilvy
3. 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
4. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. ~ Colin Powell
5. I never took a day off in my 20s. Not one. ~ Bill Gates

1. 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
2. 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
3. Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers. ~ Pat Riley
4. 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
5. 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

1. Great companies are built in the office, with hard work put in by a team. ~ Emily Chang
2. 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
3. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. ~ Henry Ford, American industrialist
4. I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
5. 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

1. 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
2. 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
3. Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. ~ Oprah Winfrey
4. 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
5. 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, CEO of IBM

1. Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work. ~ Stephen King, American author
2. The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action. ~ Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor
3. Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. ~ Ray Kroc, American fast food tycoon
4. If you are willing to work hard and ask lots of questions, you can learn business pretty fast. ~ Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder
5. The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense. ~ Thomas Edison, inventor

1. It’s not about money or connection — it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone. ~ Mark Cuban, American investor
2. 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, business magnate and philanthropist
3. 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, Brazilian soccer player
4. Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. ~ Winston S. Churchill, former British Prime Minister
5. If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. ~ Steve Jobs, co-Founder of Apple Inc.

1. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. ~ Bruce Lee, martial artist and movie star
2. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. ~ Conrad Hilton
3. 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
4. I’m against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do. ~ Colonel Sanders
5. 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,

1. 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, Serial entrepreneur
2. Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. ~ Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, former wrestler and actor
3. 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
4. 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, Former UK Prime Minister
5. A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things. ~ Ralph Lauren, fashion designer and business executive

1. 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
2. I’ve learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work. ~ Greg Behrendt
3. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football. ~ Roger Staubach
4. Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. ~ Malcolm Forbes
5. I work hard because I love my work. ~ Bill Gates