Hard Work Quotes

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all."

"You can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets."

"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."

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

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

"Impatience with actions, patience with results."

"Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens."

"Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge."

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."

"I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses."

"I trained 4 years to run 9 seconds and people give up when they don't see results in 2 months."

"Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better."

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

"It's easy to dream about it... Much harder to execute it. Work!"

"Nothing will work unless you do."

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom."

"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."

"Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work."

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

"I will not be out-worked, period. You might have more talent than me... but if we get on the treadmill together, there's two things: You're getting off first, or I'm going to die."

"Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good."

"The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work."

"You have to be willing to do what you don't want to do, to be what you want to be."

"Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way."

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career... I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

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

"I'm not a genius. I'm just a guy who's willing to work harder than you. I am a student of the grind."

"The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is the path to freedom."