Hard Work Quotes

So often we look for a magic secret or new technique that will produce tremendous returns and results with little or no work. Those seeking this magic secret will never find it—for the secret to success is to continually live and apply basic, simple fundamentals over a long period of time.

~ Cameron C. Taylor

Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.

~ Karen Essex

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

~ Joan Miró

Coal that bears that pressure meets a diamond.

~ Shumila Shah

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with priviledge and position.

~ Toyotomi Hideyoshi

If talent without hard work was a dead-end street,talent with hard work could only be a highway.

~ Marko S.

Labor is a man crowning glory.Not this man's.I quote MarxI raised my hands. The pickaxe handle had been rough.I quote blisters.

~ John Fowles

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position.

~ Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Work hard to play harder.

~ Linda Rawson

In the end, the greatest victory we can know is the result of all of our hard work, discipline, and dedication: the realization of our dreams.

~ Cheryl Burke

It's always easier to take something than work for it...

~ Alexandra Bracken

The idea that any art is achieved 'intuitively' is a dehumanization of the brains, effort, and the traditions of the artist, and a classification of said artist as subhuman. It is those supposed incapable of intelligence, training, or connection with a tradition who are described as working by instinct or intuition.

~ Joanna Russ

Listen to Mr. Complacency long enough and he'll convince you that what you really, really need is a nap.

~ Alex And Brett Harris

We live in a microwave life where people want success without passing through the process of hard work. This is because our daily discussions focus on successes and not our struggles, which end up sending wrong message to other people, believing that success can be achieved without hard work.

~ Uzoma Nnadi

You cannot have your news instantly and have it done well. You cannot have your news reduced to 140 characters or less without losing large parts of it. You cannot manipulate the news but not expect it to be manipulated against you. You cannot have your news for free; you can only obscure the costs. If as a culture we can learn this lesson, and if we can learn to love the hard work, we will save ourselves much trouble and collateral damage. We must remember: There is no easy way.

~ Ryan Holiday

You may not be the person with high IQ, but you can be the person with highest hard work.

~ Amit Kalantri

It's a complex song, and it's fascinating to watch the creative process as they went back and forth and finally created it over a few months. Lennon was always my favorite Beatle. [ He laughs as Lennon stops during the first take and makes the band go back and revise a chord.] Did you hear that little detour they took? It didn't work, so they went back and started from where they were. It's so raw in this version. It actually makes the sound like mere mortals. You could actually imagine other people doing this, up to this version. Maybe not writing and conceiving it, but certainly playing it. Yet they just didn't stop. They were such perfectionists they kept it going This made a big impression on me when I was in my thirties. You could just tell how much they worked at this. They did a bundle of work between each of these recording. They kept sending it back to make it closer to perfect.[ As he listens to the third take, he points out how instrumentation has gotten more complex.] The way we build stuff at Apple is often this way. Even the number of models we'd make of a new notebook or iPod. We would start off with a version and then begin refining and refining, doing detailed models of the design, or the buttons, or how a function operates. It's a lot of work, but in the end it just gets better, and soon it's like, Wow, how did they do that?!? Where are the screws?

~ Walter Isaacson

Early to bed and early to work might get you a success, but late to bed and early to work will get you a glory.

~ Amit Kalantri

Today is hard but who cares, by each hard day we are making stair for us.

~ Avinash Prasad

There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.

~ Max Brooks

This should have been a red flag, I realize in retrospect. Working really hard on anything is, by definition, not cool.

~ Leila Sales

When you are pursuing your dreams, they will call you CRAZY because they are LAZY. They never know you are a HERO who just jumped away from step ZERO. Stay away from negative people; they will only pollute you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I want the peace in knowing that is wasn’t for lack of hustling that I missed a target for my dream. I want to know that the one thing in my control was under control.

~ Jon Acuff

As I see it, if you work more hours than somebody else, during those hours you learn more about your craft. That can make you more efficient, more able, even happier. Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster.

~ Randy Pausch

I believe in success.No matter how much the hard work sucks, the triumph is just like good sex!

~ Himmilicious

Some people dream of SUCCESS while other wake up and work hard at it.

~ Barbara Rubel

Love what you do, do it with passion, work hard, and never give up. Money and happiness will come to you.

~ Joseph C. Kunz Jr.

Virginity comes standard. A good head is earned.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you. Beginners are many, finishers are few. -Anonymous, as quoted in Small and Simple Things.

~ Marjorie Pay Hinckley

If you don't burn out at the end of each day, you're a bum.

~ George Lois

Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you GET for it, but what you BECOME for it.

~ Steve Maraboli

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

~ Idries Shah

There is an open circle.” This mantra is what my high school coaches would say to me during wrestling practice when they knew that I was physically exhausted and was about to rest for a moment. There was an open circle on the wrestling mat, and if I was interested I could get out there and do more.“There is an open circle.” Meaning there is still more that you could do. Don’t rest now; this is where the difference is made. To work when you are mentally and physically exhausted gets you to the next level.“There is an open circle.

~ Johna Passaro

Easy and difficult things are juat small parts of life, the rest are what have to be done.

~ Alief Moulana

Talent is what God gives us, Skill is what we give back to Him

~ Eliel Pierre

Many say What goes up must come down. I believe this was spoken by a pessimist. I believe it is vitally important to remember that What goes up...must have started some place. #workhard

~ Dr. Jayce O'neal

What you really believe about the source of great performance thus becomes the foundation of all you will ever achieve

~ Geoff Colvin