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Hard Work Quotes for Achieving Greatness and Fulfillment

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Hard work is the key to success. Without hard work, no success is achievable. Life is incomplete without goals and their accomplishments and to attain the same consistent hard work is required. 

Hard work Quotes are very important for everyone. Hard work quotes can make you realize its importance in every sphere of life. Not just career wise, but even in others spheres of life hard work is important to achieve what you desire. It may even include good relationships with your loved ones. 

Inspiring Hard work quotes 

1. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” 

~ Maya Angelou

2. “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” 

~ George Bernard Shaw

3.  “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

4. “Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” 

~ Sam Ewing

5. “If your teacher, coach, or mentor believes you can do something, you’re more likely to do it.” 

~ Gwen Moran

6. “Sometimes, you have to give up. Sometimes, knowing when to give up, when to try something else, is genius. Giving up doesn’t mean stopping. Don’t ever stop.” 

~ Phil Knight

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

~ Stephen King

8. “The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress.” 

~ Dan Waldschmidt

9. “There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” 

~ Michael Phelps

10. “On any given Monday I am one sale closer and one idea away from being a millionaire.” 

~  Larry D. Turner

11. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” 

~ Thomas Edison

12.  “When you do more than you’ paid for, eventually you’ll be paid for more than you do.” 

~ Zig Ziglar

13. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” 

~ Dale Carnegie

14. “A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn.” 

~ Helen Keller

15. “As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better.” 

~ Dr. Steve Maraboli

16. “If you’re in a job that you hate, don’t be scared of seeking out something that might be riskier. Anything can turn into something with passion and hard work.” 

~ Whitney Wolfe Herd

17. “If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.” 

~ Michelangelo

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

~ Colin Powell

Long Hard work quotes

19. “I do not know anyone who has got 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

20. “I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as a nation, and it’s a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy.” 

~ Mike Rowe

21. “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

22. If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” 

~ Josh Billings

23. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” 

~ Michael Jordan

24. “We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” 

~ Arianna Huffington

25. “The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.” 

~ Muhammad Ali

26. “You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.” 

~ Marian Wright

27. “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” 

~ Booker T. Washington

28. “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” 

~ Nietzsche

29. “If you start thinking you are good at something, that’s often the day you stop trying to be better and open the back door for someone to come after you. That’s why we always aim higher. We never feel like we’re done.” 

~ Drew Houston

30. “There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.” 

~ Madam C.J. Walker, 

31. “Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.” 

~ Jeffrey Gitomer

32. “You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.” 

~ Alan Alda

33. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” 

~ Dale Carnegie

34. “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, `Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” 

~ Martin Luther King

35.  “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” — Dwayne Johnson

Short Hard work quotes 

36. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” 

~ Tim Notke

37. “Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.” 

~ Susan L. Taylor

38. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” 

~ Coco Chanel

39.  “I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.” 

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

40. “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” 

~ Isaac Newton

41. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”  

~ Steve Jobs

42. “Impossible is just an opinion.” 

~ Paulo Coelho

43. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” 

~ Muhammad Ali

44. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” 

~ Walt Disney

45. “There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.” 

~ Zig Ziglar,

46. “The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.” 

~ Epicurus

47. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” 

~ Tony Robbins

48. “You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training.” 

~ Tom Hopkins

49. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” 

~ Babe Ruth

50. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” 

~ Thomas Jefferson

51. “Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”  ~ Oprah Winfrey

52. “Do or do not. There is no try.” 

~ Yoda

53. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.” 

~  Elon Musk

54. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” 

~ Arthur Ashe

55. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” 

~ Charles R. Swindoll

56.  “Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” 

~ Dr. Mae Jemison

57. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” 

~ Vidal Sassoon

Best Hard work quotes 

58. “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” 

~ Thomas Paine

59. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” 

~ Walter Elliot

60. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” 

~ Winston S. Churchill

61. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” 

~ Robert Collier

62. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” 

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

63.  “Without labor, nothing prospers.” 

~ Sophocles

64. “If you are patient…and wait long enough…Nothing will happen” 

~ Jim Davis

65. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” 

~ Albert Einstein

Bottom Line

Hard work is a must in everyone’s life, to make life a meaningful one. Life becomes aimless without goals and their subsequent hard work.

These hard work quotes rightly capture the need of hard work in everyone’s life. And, they also help in inspiring people towards striving harder and reaching absolute potential. 

Do hard work, have a good life!

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