Top 60 Grind Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Startup Quotes, Success Quotes, Perseverance Quotes

2. “I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done.”

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Focus Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Discipline Quotes

3. “I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Startup Quotes, Focus Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Hard Work Quotes

4. “Some of you love sleep more than you love success. If you want to be successful, you gotta be willing to give up sleep. If you go to sleep, you might miss the opportunity to be successful.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Action Quotes, Hustle Quotes

5. “All I know is grind.”

— Ray Lewis

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Sports Quotes

6. “Work harder than anybody you’ve ever seen. That’s what I believe.”

— Meek Mill

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Hustle Quotes, Winning Quotes

7. “I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Winning Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Determination Quotes

8. “You can’t sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Action Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes

9. “Most of you say you want to be successful, but you don’t want it badly enough. You just kind of want it. You don’t want it more than you want to party. You don’t want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don’t want success as much as you want to sleep.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Hustle Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Ambition Quotes

10. “I’ve gotta breathe it, I’ve gotta eat it, I’ve gotta sleep it and until you get there you will never be successful in life. But once you get there I guarantee you, the world is yours. So work hard, and you can have whatever it is that you want.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Hustle Quotes, Dedication Quotes

11. “Motivation is crap. Motivation comes and goes. When you are driven, whatever is in front of you will get destroyed.”

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Hustle Quotes, Life is Hard Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Fitness Quotes

12. “The world is yours and everything in it, it’s out there- get on your grind and get it.”

— Young Jeezy

Also featured in: Wealth Quotes, Sales Motivational Quotes, Grit Quotes, Desire Quotes

13. “You’ve gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.”

— John Calipari

Also featured in: Gym Motivation Quotes

14. “A prepared mind craves the worst conditions because it knows that pressure brings out its best and exposes almost everyone else.”

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Mental Strength Quotes, Grit Quotes, Workout Quotes

15. “It’s a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day.”

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Hard Hitting Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes

16. “Regardless of how much is left in the tank, you gotta fight back!”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Mental Strength Quotes, Warrior Quotes, Grit Quotes, Workout Quotes

17. “On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.”

— Nipsey Hussle

Also featured in: Hustle Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Taking Action Quotes

18. “You are the only person who can make this work, and you are the only person who can mess this up.”

— Andrew Tate

Also featured in: Accountability Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

19. “I love people, and the hustle.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

20. “If you want to be rich, don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Hustle Quotes, Hard Hitting Quotes, Quotes About Money

21. “Invest in yourself first. Expect nothing from no one and be willing to work for everything.”

— Tony Gaskins

22. “If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.”

— Earl Nightingale

Also featured in: Lifelong Learning Quotes, Quotes About Skills

23. “You’ll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.”

— Will Smith

Also featured in: Accountability Quotes

24. “If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.”

— Pep Guardiola

Also featured in: Fitness Quotes, Competition Quotes, Football Quotes, Soccer Quotes

25. “I’m obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don’t want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be.”

— Drake

Also featured in: Focus On Yourself Quotes, Perfection Quotes

26. “Stay hungry, remain humble and get better today.”

— Pete Carroll

Also featured in: Growth Mindset Quotes, Monday Morning Quotes, Monday Quotes, Tuesday Work Quotes

27. “In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.”

— LeBron James

Also featured in: Friday Quotes for Work, Accountability Quotes, Life is Hard Quotes, Grit Quotes

28. “I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Sports Quotes, Basketball Quotes

29. “The time is ‘now’ to do something – don’t drag your feet.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Intention Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Time Management Quotes

30. “I believe in forgetting everything and only focusing on what matters the most – 6 months of hardcore hard work.”

— Vladimer Botsvadze

31. “I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.”

— Michael Phelps

Also featured in: Sports Quotes, Gym Motivation Quotes, Exercise Quotes

32. “I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Grit Quotes

33. “My mind on my money, my money on my mind.”

— Snoop Dogg

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Wealth Quotes

34. “I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There’s no stopping. I didn’t create the fame, the fame created me.”

— Lady Gaga

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Women, Passion Quotes, Artist Quotes, Personal Branding Quotes

35. “Your relationships will either make you or break you and there is no such thing as a neutral relationship. People either inspire you to greatness or pull you down in the gutter, it’s that simple. No one fails alone, and no one succeeds alone.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Hard Hitting Quotes, Influence Quotes, New Relationship Quotes

36. “Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Wealth Quotes, Quotes About Waiting

37. “The bottom line is that life is one big mind game. The only person you are playing against is yourself.”

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Mental Strength Quotes

38. “The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

Also featured in: Friday Quotes for Work

39. “Consistency of effort over the long run is everything.”

— Angela Duckworth

Also featured in: Grit Quotes, Consistency Quotes, Keep Going Quotes

40. “Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.”

— Jack Canfield

Also featured in: Journey Quotes

41. “Success is the result of a clear goal, unshakable confidence, proper planning, enthusiastic ACTION and consistent persistence.”

— James Caan

Also featured in: Financial Success Quotes, Sales Motivational Quotes, Tuesday Work Quotes

42. “Nothing happens until I make it happen.”

— Scott Wilson

Also featured in: Accountability Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Actions Speak Louder Than Words Quotes

43. “People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.”

— Frederick Douglass

Also featured in: Quotes About Work, Freedom Quotes, Labor Day Quotes

44. “No one has ever drowned in sweat.”

— Lou Holtz

Also featured in: Football Quotes, Exercise Quotes, Funny Motivational Quotes

45. “Success doesn’t come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It’s the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence.”

— Nick Saban

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Consistency Quotes, Tuesday Work Quotes

46. “What you do daily determines what you become permanently.”

— Mike Murdock

Also featured in: Consistency Quotes

47. “I’m a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!”

— Jay-Z

Also featured in: Wealth Quotes, Sales Motivational Quotes

48. “Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success!”

— Phil Heath

Also featured in: Hard Hitting Quotes, Gym Motivation Quotes

49. “Monday, I grind. Tuesday, I grind. Wednesday, I grind. Thursday, I grind. Friday, I grind. Saturday, I grind. Sunday, I grind. And, that’s why I’m here today.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Focus Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Goal Quotes, Hard Work Quotes

50. “You have to become excellent, not just do things excellently.”

— Eric Thomas