Hard Work Quotes

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.

~ Roger Staubach

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

~ Richard Branson

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

~ Michael Jordan

There are really four 'headlines' for me: honesty, integrity, hard work, and what I call a 'can-do' attitude. You could call that 'can-do' attitude optimism, but it is not Pollyannaish optimism. Rather, it is a 'we'll figure it out' type of mentality.

~ Dylan Taylor

Trawl through the world of blogs and tweets, and you will find readers complaining when they stumble upon a word they don't recognise, an attitude that doesn't accord with their own, a passage of thought they find hard work, a joke they don't get or of which they don't approve.

~ Howard Jacobson

I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.

~ Sam Hunt

You can learn what you want to learn through hard work. And a good employer will teach you what you want to learn as long as you show the right attitude and behaviors.

~ Gerald Chertavian

A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don't have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perserverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.

~ Robert Kraft

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

~ Vince Lombardi

Respect your parents. What they tell you is true. Hard work, dedication and faith will get you anything. Imagination will drive itself. You can get anything you want, but you have to have faith behind all your ideas. Stick to your goals and have an undying faith.

~ Russell Simmons

All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.

~ Troy Polamalu

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

~ Colin Powell

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

~ Gail Devers

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

~ Ben Carson

I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

~ J. Cole

For over two centuries, Americans have grown up in a society that rewards hard work, protects innovation, and allows its citizens to constantly break new barriers. The key element to this success rests on freedom and the ability of individuals to strive toward achieving their dreams and making their children's futures better than their own.

~ Renee Ellmers

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.

~ Pelé

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

I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.

~ Larry Page

Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

~ Caitlyn Jenner

If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

~ Caitlyn Jenner

When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to know what it took to be successful. He coached a lot of our sports teams growing up. We weren't very good, but we learned about hard work and enjoying life and your teammates.

~ Andrew Luck

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

~ Virat Kohli

To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.

~ Summer Sanders

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

I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.

~ Tamron Hall

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

~ John Carmack

Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.

~ Jahangir Khan

I believe that we all have a responsibility to give back. No one becomes successful without lots of hard work, support from others, and a little luck. Giving back creates a virtuous cycle that makes everyone more successful.

~ Ron Conway

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

~ Iain Duncan Smith

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

~ Pope Paul Vi

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

~ Margaret Mead

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

~ Heather Bresch

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

~ Ann Landers

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

~ Kevin Hart

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

~ Kevin Eubanks

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

~ Haile Gebrselassie

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

~ Deepika Padukone

Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

~ Robert Griffin Iii

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

~ Thomas A. Edison