Top 200 Hard Work Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.”

— Steven Pressfield

102. “There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all equal as human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that is that. I am not talented, I am obsessed.”

— Conor McGregor

103. “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

104. “All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.”

— Eric Thomas

105. “There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning.”

— John Wooden

106. “Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!”

— David O. McKay

107. “There is no barrier to success which diligence and perseverance cannot hurdle.”

— Oscar Micheaux

108. “Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.”

— Hamilton Holt

109. “I start early and I stay late, day after day, year after year, it took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.”

— Lionel Messi

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

— David Goggins

111. “Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; ’tis God’s gift.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

112. “It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.”

— Mark Cuban

113. “Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.”

— Swami Vivekananda

114. “There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.”

— Zig Ziglar

115. “The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.”

— Gabby Douglas

116. “I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”

— Madam C. J. Walker

117. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.”

— Karen Lamb

118. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”

— Steve Jobs

119. “Always deliver more than expected.”

— Larry Page

120. “Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.”

— Swami Vivekananda

121. “Work hard, have fun and make history.”

— Jeff Bezos

122. “You will never ever be successful, until you turn your pain into greatness, until you allow your pain to push you from where you are to push you to where you need to be. Stop running from your pain and embrace your pain. Your pain is going to be a part of your prize, a part of your product. I challenge you to push yourself.”

— Eric Thomas

123. “Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.”

— Swami Vivekananda

124. “Success isn’t overnight. It’s when every day you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.”

— Dwayne Johnson

125. “Ignore the noise, focus on your work.”

— Anonymous

126. “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”

— Henry Ford

127. “Success isn’t owned. It’s leased. And rent is due every day.”

— J. J. Watt

128. “Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”

— Bruce Lee

129. “You don’t set out to build a wall. You don't say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there. You say, ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ You do that every single day. And soon you have a wall.”

— Will Smith

130. “If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.”

— Abdul Kalam

131. “Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

— Les Brown

132. “Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

133. “Give me 100 percent. You can’t make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don’t have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that’s what I want from you right now.”

— John Wooden

134. “Do not wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”

— Napoleon Hill

135. “We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

136. “Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.”

— Chuck Close

137. “Hustle is the most important word – EVER.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

138. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.”

— Michael Jordan

139. “You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.”

— Elon Musk

140. “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

— Seneca

141. “Luck is the dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”

— Ray Kroc

142. “No excuses. Just do the work.”

— Shalane Flanagan

143. “Don’t quit. You’re already in pain. You’re already hurt. Get a reward from it!”

— Eric Thomas

144. “Work hard, be brave.”

— Casey Neistat

145. “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom.”

— Jim Rohn

146. “Well done is better than well said.”

— Benjamin Franklin

147. “Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

— Benjamin Franklin

148. “I hate that word – “lucky.” It cheapens a lot of hard work. Living in Brooklyn in an apartment without any heat and paying for dinner at the bodega with dimes – I don’t think I felt myself lucky back then. Doing plays for 50 bucks and trying to be true to myself as an artist and turning down commercials where they wanted a leprechaun. Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn. So I won’t say I’m lucky. I’m fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.”

— Peter Dinklage

149. “The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.”

— William Arthur Ward

150. “Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.”

— Michael Jordan