Famous quotes about success and hard work: To succeed, you must be willing to put in the hard work. This is something that many famous people have spoken about throughout the years. Below are some of the most inspiring quotes about success and hard work.
Famous quotes about success and hard work
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill.
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” -Arthur Ashe
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” -Steve Jobs
“If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. If you want something done perfectly, ask a lazy person to do it.” -Steve Jobs
“The things you own end up owning you.” -Joan Rivers
“It’s not the quality of work that counts; it’s the quantity.” -Steve Jobs
“There is no greater source of joy than to see your dreams come true and to work hard to make them so.” -Andrew Carnegie
“There is no substitute for hard work.” -Thomas Edison
“You must be willing to give up the good to go for the best.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” -Jim Rohn
“Always go further than you think you can. You will see how much further you can go when you do.” -Sir Edmund Hillary
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” -Florence Nightingale
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” -Jimmy Johnson
“If you want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” -Jim Rohn
“Man does not simply exist, but he has made himself.” -Jean Rostand
“To succeed in the business world, you must have the right attitude.” -Sir Arthur Halstead
“If you can measure success by how many people you helped…then I count myself among the successes. I have been responsible for so many people’s success that it is hard to know where to begin and where to stop.” -Thomas Watson, Sr.
“The mindset and attitude that every person has the power to achieve great things at any point in time, as long as you set your mind to it.”
“setting the highest corporate standards possible, and doing what is necessary to achieve a goal, are two important reasons for fiercely competitive. Another factor that leads to success is improvement and continuous self-development in all aspects of life.”
“the willingness to do whatever it takes to achieve corporate goals and objectives, resulting in a winning attitude toward leading a highly productive lifestyle.”
“Much research indicates that people who are happy, or extremely happy, have much more success in life than those who are unhappy.”
“The ability for individuals to set goals for themselves and achieve them is fundamental in leading a highly productive lifestyle.”
“The willingness and ability to learn from mistakes made throughout life.”
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph! What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods.” -Thomas Paine
“Things will happen in life that you don’t expect and you have to be prepared for them.” -Ray Lewis
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” -William Shakespeare.
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe.
“Failure is not fatal: It’s the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill
“If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try again.” -Paulo Coelho
“If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. If you want something done perfectly, ask a lazy person to do it.” -Steve Jobs
“There are two ways to do every job: One is the old way, and the other is the Steve Jobs way.” -Steve Jobs
“Experience is a wonderful thing. But unfortunately, it cannot make you any smarter.” -Robert Heinlein
“If you want something done right, give it enough time.” -Sir Winston Churchill
“Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. The real key to immortality is passion.” -Bob Dylan
“Success will never happen if you merely wish for it. You have to go out and get it.” -Sam Walton
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.” -Lao Tzu
“The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer others.” -Anthony Bourdain
“It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.” -Ben Franklin
“If you always put off until tomorrow what you can do today, you will live forever in regret.”
“If you always put off until tomorrow what you can do today, you will live forever in regret.” -Stephen Richards
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” -Steve Jobs
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” -Jimmy Johnson
“Don’t get too focused on the process. You have to trust the process, but it’s not the end-all. The goal is what’s important. The process is just to get you there.” -Ray Lewis
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” -Steve Jobs
“It’s hard enough getting people to think outside the box, but once you get them thinking, it’s even harder getting them to think inside the box again.” -Walter Isaacson
“The hardest thing about any journey dares to begin it.” -Christopher Paolini
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” -Steve Jobs
“I don’t think about failure. I’ve failed many, many times, and that’s what drives me.” -Michael Jordan
Famous Hard Work Quotes
“You can’t be successful unless you are passionate about what you do.” -Michael Jordan
“What matters most is not winning or losing, but how we play the game.” -Michael Jordan
“You have to work hard if you want to get ahead. I’ve never done anything easy in my life.” -Michael Jordan
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill
“The harder the challenge, the more delicious the victory.” -Winston Churchill
“You have to be passionate about what you do if you are going to achieve anything in life.” -Michael Jordan
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.” – Dalai Lama
“There is no substitute for hard work.” -Thomas Edison
“When you want to achieve a goal, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it.” -Paulo Coelho
“If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. If you want it done perfectly, ask a lazy person to do it.” -Steve Jobs
“I would rather be a poor man with some integrity than a rich man without it.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It’s the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill
“It is not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years.” -Abraham Lincoln
“I have had great success, but I still stand on the shoulders of giants.” -Michael Jordan
“I have failed over and over again… that’s what makes me successful.” -Michael Jordan
“Talent is not what you have, but what you use.” -Zig Ziglar
“Hard work never killed anybody…and it’s probably a good thing.” -Will Rogers
“I’ve failed over and over again… that’s what makes me successful.” -Michael Jordan
“When you want to achieve a goal, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it.” -Paulo Coelho
“If there is anything that we can learn from history, it is that people in the long run are not governed by their rational calculations, but by their passion and their faith.” -Alexis de Tocqueville
“Sometimes the only way to do great work is to not do it at all.”
“There are two ways to do every job: One is the old way, and the other is the Steve Jobs way.” -Steve Jobs.
“If you don’t have passion for your work, you will always be mediocre at it.” -Steve Jobs.
“The most valuable thing taught in schools is not intellect but character. The primary purpose of education is to furnish the young with an instrument of character.” -Benjamin Franklin
“Experience is a wonderful thing. But unfortunately, it cannot make you any smarter.” -Robert Heinlein
“There are two ways to do every job: One is the old way, and the other is the Steve Jobs way.” -Steve Jobs
“You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.” -David Lloyd George
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it’s the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill
“Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. I’ve been very, very scared. I’ve gone over and over the same situation in my mind a thousand times. And I still get more scared.” -Michael Jordan
“If you want greatness, prepare to be lonely on your journey.” -Anna Quindlen
“You are as young as your heart !” -Maya Angelou
“I believe that God wants us to be happy. That’s why he sent us here. He put us on this earth with our own experiences, our own problems so that we could learn from them.” -Barack Obama
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of looking at things.” -George Bernard Shaw
“Think positive. Don’t worry about the future. Live in the present.” -John Lennon
“You are as young as your heart!” -Maya Angelou
“Sometimes it takes only a spark to light the fire of inspiration.” -David Bismark
“Nobody’s going to give you the opportunities that you want in life; people are going to allow you to make it happen.” -Arthur Ashe
“Whatever you want in life, start today. Do not wait for tomorrow.” -Paulo Coelho
“To be successful, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something that inspires you.” -Drew Pinsky
“Beating your mind is like beating your head against the wall. It may feel good, but you’re going to hurt yourself.” -Gordon B. Hinckley
“You can’t make it any easier by taking away the challenge. You can’t make it any easier by telling me that everyone else has already done it.” – Michael Jordan
“Just keep your eyes on the prize and you will soon be there.” -Theodore Roosevelt
“Fate is the hunter, and a cruel hunter she is.” -Hunter S. Thompson
“It doesn’t matter how big you dream, how grand your plans are. It doesn’t matter how hard you try. Life will always find a way to thwart them.” -Lance Brown
“Don’t let anyone steal your fire.” -Socrates
“The only person who is going to make you feel bad about yourself is the one that tells you that he or she loves you.” -Brett Ratner
“If you have dreams, it’s important that you don’t let anyone take them away from you. You have to learn to protect your dreams at all costs.” -Clint Eastwood
“All achievements require sacrifice and hard work. No great genius has ever existed without a profound sense of loneliness.” -Albert Einstein
“If you don’t have passion for your work, you will always be mediocre at it.” -Steve Jobs
“You should always try to accomplish more than what you expect.” -Michael Jordan
“I can’t make anyone love me, but they must respect me; otherwise, they are not worth my time.” -Charles Barkley
“Do more than you are paid for.” -Tom Landry
“Most people don’t have the character, the patience to do that. They give up just when they’re about to make it.” -Billy Jean King
“My daddy always told me that I had to work hard if I wanted to be successful. And nobody has worked harder or sacrificed more than my mom.” -Barack Obama
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” -Bill Gates
Quotes on Hard Work by Famous Personalities
“Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.” -Oprah Winfrey
“You have to be obsessed. It’s a disease, but it’s a motivator, and it will help you get over all your fears.” -Steve Jobs
“I’ve failed over and over again… that’s what makes me successful.” -Michael Jordan
“It doesn’t matter how hard you fall if you get up every time you can.” -Michael Jordan
“The best things in life are worth waiting for-you never know when they will happen.” -Oprah Winfrey
“If you have a dream, you should follow it, no matter where it leads. Dreamers are the people who go where there’re no roads. They have no maps to follow because they are making the road as they walk.” -Madeleine L’Engle
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” -Harvey Fierstein
“A strong person doesn’t need anyone to complete them, a weak person will always try to get someone else to make them whole or fill their void.” -Dean Gailo
“You’ve got to have a dream, and then you’ve got to be willing to pay the price.” -Muhammad Ali
“When you get knocked down, you have to get back up no matter what.” -Michael Jordan
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” -Samuel Johnson
“Overcoming an obstacle increases your self-confidence, which makes you more capable of dealing with other obstacles and achieving future success.” -Dale Carnegie
“When I was young, I had a big belief in myself. I said, ‘I’m going to do great things with my life.’ And I did.” -Oprah Winfrey
“Anything can be achieved with hard work and dedication.” -Michael Jordan
“Greatness is in the heart of many.” -Dante Alighieri
“People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light behind them.” -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“If you want to live on a ridge top, you can’t just stop at one peak. There must be successive ridges stretching away. You must always see the next summit.” -Dale Carnegie
“If you have a goal, you can have anything.” -Oprah Winfrey
“Every human problem, however complicated, can be solved if you reduce it to its simplest terms.” -Pearl S. Buck
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” -Arthur C. Clarke
“In disagreements, remember that we are all almost certainly wrong. And the purpose of disagreement is to learn how much worse off we could be if we were right.” -Paulo Coelho
“The harder the challenge, the more delicious the victory.” -Winston Churchill
“I am not a product of my environment. I am the product of the choices I have made.” -Michael Jordan
“You have to work hard if you want to get ahead.” -Michael Jordan
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it’s the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill
“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.” -Roger Bannister
“Concentrate on your game, and you’ll be surprised how well your life will work out.” -Arthur Ashe
“If you have what it takes to be a champion, the worst thing you can do is worry about everyone else.” -Vince Lombardi
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” – Bruce Lee
“If you’re tired of starting over you’re tired of living.” – Zig Ziglar
“Never give up on something that you can’t go a single day without thinking about.” -Anonymous
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” -Viktor Frankl
“If you want to be successful, make relationships a priority. Nothing can replace them or the time spent cultivating them. I believe that relationships are the most important part of success.” -Oprah Winfrey
“Every second you spend angry is a second that you’re not spending in love or productive activity.” -Roger Alan Wilsons
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.” -Gary Player
“Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.” -Joseph P. Martino
“If you are going through hell, keep going.” -Winston Churchill
“The harder the challenge, the more delicious the victory.” -Winston Churchill
“There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison
“I would rather be a poor man with some integrity than a rich man without it.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“It’s not about how much money you make or what car you drive; it’s about how much you give back.” -Shane Koyczan
“All great achievements involve some amount of pain and suffering.” -Zig Ziglar
“Remember, when someone tells you it’s impossible, that’s just their truth.” -Shane Koyczan
“Success is peace of mind that is the direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” – John Wooden
“Life is like a roller coaster, and if you’re going to ride it, make sure to grab on and hang on for dear life. And if you know you’re the best, have the confidence to say it out loud.” -Chin Up.
“Everyone has four endowments- self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.” – Stephen Covey
“In life, try to do things that make people remember you. Try not to do the things that make them forget you.” -Anonymous.
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” -Calvin Coolidge.
“There’s a fine line between being confident and being cocky. Confidence is based on self-esteem, cockiness is based on low self-esteem.” – Frank Sinatra
“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” -Woody Allen
“The most important thing is not to stop questioning.” -Albert Einstein
“Action speaks louder than words. So, if you want to be heard, let your actions do the talking.” -Mandy Hale
“Live in your truth. Stand up for what you believe. And be willing to take a hit for what you know is right.” -Krishna Das
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” -Jim Rohn
“Do today what others won’t so tomorrow you can accomplish what others can’t.” – Anonymous