Top 200 Hard Work Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey.”

— Urijah Faber

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Achievement Quotes

2. “Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Goal Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes

3. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Friday Quotes for Work, Positive Motivation Quotes

4. “Have confidence in your ability to do it right, and work hard to do the best possible job.”

— Walt Disney

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

— Meek Mill

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

6. “Confidence and hard work are the best medicines to kill the disease called failure. They will make you a successful person.”

— Abdul Kalam

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes

7. “I work hard because I love my work.”

— Bill Gates

8. “Be an individual, work hard, study, get your mind straight, and trust nobody.”

— Tupac Shakur

Also featured in: Study Quotes, Mind Quotes, Individuality Quotes

9. “If you don’t back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn’t mean a thing.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work

10. “Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.”

— Hill Harper

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Smart Quotes, Quotes About Believing

11. “I work hard and fight easy.”

— Conor McGregor

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Fighting Quotes

12. “There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.”

— Roger Federer

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Effort Quotes

13. “Aim high, work hard, and love your family.”

— Deborah Roberts

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Love You Quotes, Family Quotes

14. “The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.”

— Michelle Obama

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Motivational Monday Quotes

15. “All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason.”

— Emmitt Smith

Also featured in: Football Quotes

16. “If you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder; don’t work harder.”

— Tim Ferriss

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Quotes About Thinking

17. “Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Motivational Quotes About Life, Positive Work Quotes

18. “I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.”

— Ray Bradbury

Also featured in: Teamwork Quotes

19. “Work hard at work worth doing.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Work, Motivational Work Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work

20. “To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Giving Up Quotes, Purpose Quotes

21. “There is no substitute for hard work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Startup Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work

22. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”

— Harry Golden

Also featured in: Luck Quotes

23. “Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.”

— Barack Obama

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Change Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes

24. “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

25. “Hard work, dedication!”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Also featured in: Winning Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Sports Quotes

26. “There is no magic to achievement. It’s really about hard work, choices, and persistence.”

— Michelle Obama

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women

27. “I’ve learned over the years that when it comes to success, consistency is key. Consistent hard work that we may not like doing today, but for a payoff we’ll love tomorrow. Earn it. Enjoy it.”

— Dwayne Johnson

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Performance Quotes

28. “If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”

— Thomas J. Watson

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Business Quotes, Failure Quotes, Learning Quotes

29. “Work hard. Someone’s always watching.”

— Donald Trump

30. “Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion.”

— T.D. Jakes

Also featured in: Winning Quotes, Practice Quotes

31. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Work, Motivational Work Quotes, Commitment Quotes

32. “Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work.”

— David Rockefeller

Also featured in: Prosperity Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Quotes About Skills, Monday Quotes

33. “Always work hard, never give up, and fight until the end because it’s never really over until the whistle blows.”

— Alex Morgan

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Winning Quotes

34. “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Commitment Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Struggle Quotes

35. “A successful outcome shows what hard work, perseverance and taking advantage of your opportunities will do for you.”

— Will Rogers

36. “Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Also featured in: Fear Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

37. “When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Prosperity Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

38. “Those times when you get up early and you work hard; those times when you stay up late and you work hard; those times when you don’t feel like working, you’re too tired, you don’t want to push yourself, but you do it anyway; that is actually the dream. That’s the dream. It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Passion Quotes

39. “There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that.”

— Derek Jeter

Also featured in: Work Ethic Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Practice Quotes

40. “I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

Also featured in: Hustle Quotes, Effort Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes

41. “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.”

— Thomas A. Edison

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Practice Quotes, Work Hard Quotes

42. “There are no shortcuts – everything is reps, reps, reps.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Work Ethic Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

43. “Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.”

— Thomas A. Edison

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Practice Quotes, Genius Quotes

44. “Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. 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

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Hustle Quotes, Growth Mindset Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Men

45. “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

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Work, Career Development Quotes

46. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”

— Stephen King

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Effort Quotes, Career Development Quotes

47. “The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Prosperity Quotes

48. “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: Action Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes

49. “Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Leadership Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

50. “I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. When I feel pain, that’s when I start counting, because that’s when it really counts.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Willpower Quotes