Top 200 Work Ethic Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I wasn't lucky, I deserved it.”

— Margaret Thatcher

152. “Do a good job. You don’t have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work then try to trump it.”

— Walt Disney

153. “Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.”

— Edward Young

154. “There’s only one way to work – like hell.”

— Bette Davis

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

— Roger Federer

156. “Success and rest don’t sleep together.”

— Og Mandino

157. “Every day you either get better or you get worse. You never stay the same.”

— Bo Schembechler

158. “You have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.”

— Taylor Swift

159. “Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.”

— Tony Robbins

160. “Work, finish, publish.”

— Michael Faraday

161. “Quality is the best business plan.”

— John Lasseter

162. “The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.”

— Denis Waitley

163. “Never hope for it more than you work for it.”

— Rita Mae Brown

164. “Ideation without execution is delusion.”

— Robin S. Sharma

165. “The key to success is effort. The bigger the goal, the greater the effort.”

— Michael Josephson

166. “The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.”

— John C. Maxwell

167. “There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.”

— Alan Cohen

168. “What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.”

— Gretchen Rubin

169. “Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillful, swift, and steady.”

— Bruce Lee

170. “Quality is pride of workmanship.”

— W. Edwards Deming

171. “You’ll have time to rest when you’re dead.”

— Robert De Niro

172. “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

173. “Just start. Don’t wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.”

— Jacqueline Novogratz

174. “Working together is success.”

— Henry Ford

175. “Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.”

— Dwayne Johnson

176. “Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.”

— Margaret Thatcher

177. “Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.”

— Dhirubhai Ambani

178. “Young man, make your name worth something.”

— Andrew Carnegie

179. “There is no such thing as a free lunch.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

180. “Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.”

— Robert Greene

181. “If at first you don’t succeed, try hard work.”

— William Feather

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

— Mark Cuban

183. “Forget yourself and go to work.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

184. “I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.”

— Jordan Belfort

185. “There is always someone out there working harder than you, and you may be standing next to him or her in your next competition.”

— Robert Cheeke

186. “Whatever your life’s work is, do it well.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

187. “Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn.”

— Satya Nadella

188. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

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

— John Wooden

190. “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”

— William James

191. “It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

192. “On my worst day, I'll train for two hours. I don't have hobbies.”

— Nate Diaz

193. “Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.”

— Brian Tracy

194. “If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius. ”

— Michelangelo

195. “Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”

— Linus Torvalds

196. “Nothing will work unless you do.”

— Maya Angelou

197. “If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.”

— Napoleon Hill

198. “I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.”

— Charlie Munger

199. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”

— Jim Rohn

200. “Spend each day getting a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day. At the end of the day – if you live long enough – most people get what they deserve.”

— Charlie Munger