Hard Work Quotes

Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.

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.

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.

That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.

Work hard at work worth doing.

In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!

Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

As you move to the top, remember the story of the pump. If you start pumping casually or half -heartedly, you will pump forever before anything happens. Pump hard to begin with and keep it up until you get that water flowing. Then a great deal will happen.

I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment.

I've always felt real blessed, especially to live in this country. If you dream hard and work hard, anything can happen here-I'm perfect proof.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

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.

Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors.

Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.

Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals.

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world's best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

When you’re out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning. Just remember that.

Failure makes me work even harder.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

You gotta climb the steps... you can't skip them

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

Opportunities will not overlook you because you are wearing overalls.

Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains.

I said to myself, 'the champion of the whole world can whoop every man in Russia, every man in America, every man in China, every man in Japan, every man in Europe - every man in the whole world'.It sounds big, didn't it? So I kept working until I did it.

None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

I worked my face off.

Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work!

After you've work hard to get what you want, take the time to enjoy it.

If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.

In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or intellect but through one's energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities.

Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.

I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

I don't count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting.

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

You have to work hard, in order to get anything done.

Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him.

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

Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.

I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.

My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention

Success is dependent on the glands - the sweat glands.

I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.

Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

Wealth, position, fame, and even elusive happiness will be mine, eventually, if I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those who reach the top are the ones who are not content with.

Let us live in the harness, striving mightily.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

As the first woman to win Album of the Year at the Grammys twice, I want to say to all the young women out there, there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame.But if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you, someday, when you get where you are going, you will look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there. And that will be the greatest feeling in the world. Thank you for this moment.

Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.