Hard work is one of the most important qualities for achieving success. Countless quotes about hard work span centuries and cultures, demonstrating that it’s a value held in high regard throughout time.

From well-known figures like Michael Jordan and Thomas A. Edison to more contemporary voices, these quotes capture what it takes to put in the effort it takes to reach your goals.

Through adversity, dedication, and perseverance, these words are here to inspire us to keep pushing forward in our endeavors. Here are 100 of the best quotes about hard work that will keep you motivated!

  1. Do or do not. There is no try. -Yoda
  2. The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day. -Wayne Gretzky
  3. When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity. -Steve Pavlina
  4. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. -Tim Notke
  5. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually, it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, or it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off. –Kevin Hart
  6. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. -Vidal Sassoon
  7. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work. -David Ogilvy
  8. 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
  9. I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. -Thomas Jefferson
  10. Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. -Maya Angelou
  11. If your teacher, coach, or mentor believes you can do something, you’re more likely to do it. -Gwen Moran
  12. This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it to work, realize it is played. -Alan Watts
  13. Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard. -Tim Notke
  14. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy. -Dale Carnegie
  15. Work is the best friend I have ever known. It has brought me all the good things I have had. –John Softonic
  16. Hard work does pay off. -Michael Phelps
  17. Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. -Helen Hanson
  18. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work. -David Ogilvy
  19. 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
  20. Without labor, nothing prospers. -Sophocles
  21. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. –Colin Powell
  22. People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. -George Bernard Shaw
  23. A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint. -Sarah Price
  24. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. –Vidal Sassoon
  25. I do not know anyone who has gotten 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
  26. 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
  27. Through hard work, perseverance, and faith in God, you can live your dreams. –Ben Carson
  28. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. -Mahatma Gandhi
  29. On any given Monday I am one sale closer and one idea away from being a millionaire. -Larry D. Turner
  30. The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination. -Tommy Lasorda
  31. Impossible is just an opinion. -Paulo Coelho
  32. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. -Abraham Lincoln
  33. 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 that one has had to overcome while trying to succeed. -Booker T. Washington
  34. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. -Muhammad Ali
  35. The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. -Epicurus
  36. You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort, and money into training. -Tom Hopkins
  37. I will wake up tomorrow and all my Hard work will look like an overnight success. –CV Pillay
  38. Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential. –Winston Churchill
  39. Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. -Oprah Winfrey
  40. The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action. -Alexander Graham Bell
  41. If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it. -Elon Musk
  42. I sweat in tears to get what I want. -Lailah Akita
  43. It doesn’t matter if you work till your back cracks as long as it’s worth it. Hard work pays and it always leaves a lasting impression. –Frank Matobo
  44. I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is Hard work – and realizing what is an opportunity and what isn’t. –Lucille Ball
  45. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. -Charles R. Swindoll
  46. 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
  47. Hard work pays off – hard work beats talent any day, but if you’re talented and work hard, it’s hard to beat. –Robert Griffin
  48. Sometimes there’s no better way. Sometimes there’s only the hard way. –Mary E. Pearson
  49. A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things. -Ralph Lauren
  50. It hurts now but one day it will be your warm-up. -Unknown
  51. With hard work and effort, you can achieve anything. -Antoine Griezmann
  52. Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. -Gordon B. Hinckley
  53. Work harder than you think you did yesterday. -Alex Elle
  54. The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible. –Charles Kingsleigh
  55. Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. –Robert Half
  56. Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference. -Lou Holtz
  57. I learned the value of hard work by working hard. -Margaret Mead
  58. To achieve what 1% of the world’s population has, you must be willing to do what only 1% dares to do. –Manoj Arora
  59. It’s not about money or connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone. -Mark Cuban
  60. Hard work is an essential element in tracking down and perfecting a strategy or in executing it. -Charlie Munger
  61. Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. -Iain Duncan Smith
  62. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. –Michael Jordan
  63. I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. -Eleanor Roosevelt
  64. Work and you’ll get what you need; work harder and you’ll get what you want. -Prabakaran Thirumalai
  65. Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard. –Kevin Durant
  66. Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. -Malcolm Gladwell
  67. No one ever drowned in sweat. -U.S. Marine Corps
  68. Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. -Dwayne The Rock Johnson
  69. Hard work compounds like interest, and the earlier you do it, the more time you have for the benefits to pay off. -Sam Altman
  70. Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work. –Stephen King
  71. It’s not about money or connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone. -Mark Cuban
  72. A dream doesn’t become a reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work. –Colin Powell
  73. Work hard, have fun, and make history. -Jeff Bezos
  74. I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. -Thomas Jefferson
  75. Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far. -Gary Vaynerchuk
  76. Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. -Peter F. Drucker
  77. 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
  78. Without hard work and discipline, it is difficult to be a top professional. –Jahangir Khan
  79. A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things. -Ralph Lauren
  80. The wiser you get, the less you take yourself seriously, and the more work looks like play. -Maxime Lagacé
  81. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No Excuses. -Kobe Bryant
  82. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work. -David Ogilvy
  83. Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. -Henry Ford
  84. A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work. -Colin Powell
  85. We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. –Benjamin Franklin
  86. I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. -Thomas Jefferson
  87. Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. -Confucius
  88. There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life. -Alain de Botton
  89. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are Hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense. -Thomas Edison
  90. If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. -Steve Jobs, 
  91. 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
  92. Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen. -Conan O’Brien
  93. Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. –Dwayne Johnson
  94. The successful warrior is the average man, with a laser-like focus. -Bruce Lee
  95. 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
  96. Make each day your masterpiece. -John Wooden
  97. When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity. –Steve Pavlina
  98. Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel mine and coming out with empty hands. -Japanese proverb
  99. Be honest, work hard, have fun, be grateful, and pay it forward. –Bruce T. Halle
  100. He who has a slack hand becomes poor, But the hand of the diligent makes rich. -Proverbs 10:4-5 

It’s undeniable that hard work pays off. As demonstrated by the many inspiring quotes about it, success comes through dedication, concentration, and perseverance.

This doesn’t always mean you’ll have short-term rewards, but investing in your goals will lead to meaningful outcomes in the long run.

Hard work is about consistently putting in effort towards those things you value regardless of whether there are immediate results – keep pushing and good results will eventually come.

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