Hard Work Quotes & Thoughts

Perseverance Quotes

1. "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other." – Walter Elliot
2. "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
3. "Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did." – Newt Gingrich
4. "Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." – Benjamin Disraeli
5. "The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying." – John C. Maxwell
6. "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." – John Quincy Adams
7. "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." – Samuel Johnson
8. "It always seems impossible until it's done." – Nelson Mandela
9. "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." – Henry Ford
10. "Perseverance is falling nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth." – Julie Andrews

Dedication Quotes

1. "The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." – Vince Lombardi
2. "Dedication involves making the space for great work." – James Clear
3. "Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal, a commitment to excellence, that will enable you to attain the success you seek." – Mario Andretti
4. "Stay dedicated, it's not going to happen overnight." – Unknown
5. "Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come." – Dwayne Johnson
6. "Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others." – Unknown
7. "Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination." – William Longgood
8. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." – Steve Jobs
9. "Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence." – Colin Powell
10. "There are no traffic jams on the extra mile." – Zig Ziglar

Determination Quotes

1. "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination." – Tommy Lasorda
2. "Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way." – Abraham Lincoln
3. "Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" – Mary Anne Radmacher
4. "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." – Og Mandino
5. "You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals." – Booker T. Washington
6. "Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." – Harriet Beecher Stowe
7. "The difference in winning and losing is most often not quitting." – Walt Disney
8. "The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have." – Vince Lombardi
9. "Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned." – Peter Marshall
10. "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." – Elon Musk

Success Quotes

1. "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." – Albert Schweitzer
2. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill
3. "Opportunities don’t happen. You create them." – Chris Grosser
4. "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." – George S. Patton
5. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." – John D. Rockefeller
6. "I never dreamed about success, I worked for it." – Estée Lauder
7. "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." – George Bernard Shaw
8. "To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence." – Mark Twain
9. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." – Henry David Thoreau
10. "Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do." – Unknown

Motivation Quotes

1. "It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop." – Confucius
2. "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." – Arthur Ashe
3. "The future depends on what you do today." – Mahatma Gandhi
4. "You just can’t beat the person who never gives up." – Babe Ruth
5. "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson
6. "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." – Mark Twain
7. "Your limitation—it's only your imagination." – Unknown
8. "Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you." – Unknown
9. "Great things never come from comfort zones." – Unknown
10. "Dream it. Wish it. Do it." – Unknown

Focus Quotes

1. "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." – Bruce Lee
2. "Focus on your goal. Don't look in any direction but ahead." – Unknown
3. "It's not about perfect. It's about effort." – Jillian Michaels
4. "Where focus goes, energy flows." – Tony Robbins
5. "Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." – Alexander Graham Bell
6. "Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it." – Brian Tracy
7. "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." – Buddha
8. "Focus on being productive instead of busy." – Tim Ferriss
9. "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." – Bruce Lee
10. "Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure." – Napoleon Hill

Resilience Quotes

1. "Fall seven times, stand up eight." – Japanese Proverb
2. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Nelson Mandela
3. "Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before." – Elizabeth Edwards
4. "Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again." – Nelson Mandela
5. "It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up." – Vince Lombardi
6. "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail." – Confucius
7. "Tough times never last, but tough people do." – Robert H. Schuller
8. "Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." – J.K. Rowling
9. "Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient." – Steve Maraboli
10. "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." – Mahatma Gandhi

Effort Quotes

1. "What is the hardest task in the world? To think." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." – Vidal Sassoon
3. "Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." – Napoleon Hill
4. "The harder I work, the luckier I get." – Samuel Goldwyn
5. "There is simply no substitute for work when it comes to achieving success." – Heather Bresch
6. "Without labor, nothing prospers." – Sophocles
7. "Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort." – John Ruskin
8. "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." – Robert Collier
9. "Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work." – Joseph Barbara
10. "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." – George Herbert

Persistence Quotes

1. "Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in." – Bill Bradley
2. "Energy and persistence conquer all things." – Benjamin Franklin
3. "The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." – Confucius
4. "A river cuts through rock not because of its power but because of its persistence." – James N. Watkins
5. "Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." – Napoleon Hill
6. "Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston S. Churchill
7. "Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential." – Winston Churchill
8. "Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." – John Quincy Adams
9. "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." – Dale Carnegie
10. "In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance." – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.