140 Hard Work Pays Off Quotes

Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.

See, winners embrace hard work.

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

Hard work always wins in the end.

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

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

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

The enthusiasm to work hard and endless determination is the two great skills for success.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

I don’t know anything about luck, but that the harder I train, the luckier I get.

There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.

Growth is that fusion of Talent and Hard work that work as a deadly combination when introduced together.

Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you.

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.

You feel good if you’ve done hard work. You sleep better. You get stuck in your head if you have too much time to think.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Reality is easy. It’s deception that’s the hard work.

The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by its.

Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn’t quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day.

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Hard work pays off. The harder you work, the more people will notice.

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

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

To achieve your dreams, work is required. Suffering is optional.

Hard work works harder than luck!

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

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

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

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

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

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.

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

Breakthrough does not only come from hard work, but with consistency in working hard.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

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

Study while others are sleeping. Work while others are loafing. Prepare while others are playing. Dream while others are wishing.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

I’m a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it’s frivolous or superficial, but it’s not that way at all. It’s actually very hard work.

The fans in Dallas were hard on me my first year, but after having a great year last year they are now supporting me. It feels great to have my hard work pay off, especially when the fans made it hard for me.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.

Hard work makes us better people and helps our communities flourish.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

Remember, half the people you know are below average.

The harder you work, the faster you go up the ladder of your destiny.

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.

When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that’s a really good feeling.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.

Your hard work might not pay off today or tomorrow, but it will eventually pay off.

Hard work is the formula for success.

Life is hard and it can be made easier only by working hard.

Slight persistent effort can move you successfully forward in anything you do.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

I didn’t get there by wishing or hoping for it, but by working for it.

Run to the fire; don’t hide from it.

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Hard work increases the probability of serendipity.

An ambitious person is one with a mental condition which compels him to work himself to death in order to live.

There is no substitute for hard work.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

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

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

Luck doesn’t exist, only hard work works.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don’t learn. Quality you are born with.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?

With hard work and dedication, anything is possible.

Hard work enables us to improve ourselves and the world around us, to combat injustice, reduce suffering, and increase human freedom.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.

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.

If I hadn’t had the talent, the networks wouldn’t have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues.

Luck? 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 something else: Hard work–and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed 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.

I always remind my kids that hard work pays off. They see that I take nothing for granted in life. It helps them stay grounded.

If you have the passion to do something, work hard, stay honest and nothing can stop you to accomplish it.

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.

Everyone works hard when they want to, when they get quick results, when it’s convenient to put forth effort. The best work hard when they don’t want to, when it’s inconvenient to give it that little extra effort… and that extra effort might be just what they need to place them on top.

It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole…’Talent is Work.’

If you will keep being your best right where you are, you will come into more favor, promotion and opportunity than you ever imagined.

I don’t believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

Extract best of you by subjecting yourself to hard work of an unknown domain.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

When you are willing to replace mundane excuses with hard work and your laziness with determination, nothing can prevent you from succeeding.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Great companies are built in the office, with hard work put in by a team.

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.

Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that’s in us.

True heros are made of hard work and integrity.

No matter how hard you work, someone else is working harder.

When opportunities knock on the door, move on, grow stronger and prepare yourself for hard work. Opportunities will turn into a great story of success.

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day’s hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

Hoping gets you nothing in life. If you want more in life it’s your job to earn it.

If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.

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.

No matter what you choose to do in life you cannot succeed without hard work and persistent efforts.

We learned about dignity and decency, that how hard you work matters more than how much you make, that helping others means more than just getting ahead of yourself.

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

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I’m just hard-working and pragmatic.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

The Goddess doesn’t enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened in the past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope.

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.

Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.

It’s hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.

Work hard, don’t quit, be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful, also to never whine ever, never complain, and, always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.

The future depends on what you do today.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence.

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.

Have a goal. Work towards it. Because there is not a thing more fulfilling than reaping the fruits of your labor.

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all, cherish a magnificent obsession.

Nothing worth having comes easy.

Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

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

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

You can’t just will your dreams to come true. You have to work hard. You have to give ’em wings, arms, legs…whatever it takes to make your dreams come true.

That was my way of getting through difficult times of low confidence – hard work.

Desperation is not an evidence of hard work; it’s a sign of lack of faith.

Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.