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Work Ethic Quotes

Success is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Jim Rohn

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

Colin Powell

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

Tim Notke

Success is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.

Thomas Edison

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

Vidal Sassoon

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.

Ann Landers

I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Newt Gingrich

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Jimmy Johnson

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

Work hard in silence, let success make the noise.

Frank Ocean

Dreams don’t work unless you do.

John C. Maxwell

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing worth having comes easy.

Theodore Roosevelt

Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.

Unknown

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.

Unknown

Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.

Conan O’Brien

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.

David Bly

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.

Unknown

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge

Nobody ever drowned in their own sweat.

Ann Landers

Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Joan Didion

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

Michelangelo

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

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

Zig Ziglar

If you’re willing to work hard and ask lots of questions, you can learn business pretty fast.

Steve Jobs

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Stephen Hawking

The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.

Charles Kingsleigh

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

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

Stephen King

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

John F. Kennedy

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Wayne Gretzky

If you work hard enough and assert yourself and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.

Malcolm Gladwell

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Ray Kroc

If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.

Tom Hanks

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

Dwayne Johnson

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Beverly Sills

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Arthur Ashe

What you don’t sweat out when you’re young will turn into tears when you’re old.

Japanese Proverb

Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.

Zig Ziglar

Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

Dwayne Johnson

Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it away from you.

Mark Cuban

Good things come to those who work their asses off and never give up.

Unknown

Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.

Aisha Tyler

Hard work compounds like interest, and the earlier you do it, the more time you have for the benefits to pay off.

Sam Altman

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

George Halas

Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don’t despise the hard work now for surely it will be worth it in the end.

Sanjo Jendayi

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Edison

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Richard Branson

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

Babe Ruth

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

Robert Collier

If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.

Ben Hogan

Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that the power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success.

David O. McKay

Don’t work for recognition but do work worthy of recognition.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity.

Steve Pavlina

Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded there.

Dr. Wayne D. Dyer

The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!

Marvin Phillips

I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

Steve Jobs

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Buddha

Nothing will work unless you do.

Maya Angelou

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D. Rockefeller

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

Steve Jobs

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

James Allen

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Henry Ford

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Steve Jobs

Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Jim Rohn

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

Estée Lauder

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

Helena Rubinstein

Success in anything will always come down to this: Focus and effort. And we control both.

Dwayne Johnson

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Zig Ziglar

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It’s the best part of the day.

George Allen

Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Napoleon Hill

The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive, and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream.

Tommy Hilfiger

Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Mike Ditka

Hard work is an essential element in tracking down and perfecting a strategy or in executing it.

Charlie Munger

Without labor, nothing prospers.

Sophocles

Work harder than you think you did yesterday.

Alex Elle

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Samuel Goldwyn

Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe.

Sumner Redstone

Work until your idols become your rivals.

Drake

I’ve learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work.

Greg Behrendt

Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

Patrick Süskind

Work while they sleep. Learn while they party. Save while they spend. Live like they dream.

Unknown

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Work hard, have fun, make history.

Jeff Bezos