It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison
There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas Edison
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius
I never viewed myself as particularly talented. Where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy’s sleeping, I’m working.
Will Smith
If you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from, what you look like or who you love.
Barack Obama
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle.
Steve Jobs
I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life — and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
Vincent van Gogh
I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Arnold Palmer
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.
Tommy Lasorda
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
All good work requires self-revelation.
Sidney Lumet
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint.
Sarah Price
This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
Alan Watts
When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity.
Steve Pavlina
Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus.
Helen Hanson
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hard work never killed a man.
Scottish proverb
To achieve what 1% of the world’s population has, you must be willing to do what only 1% dares to do.
Manoj Arora
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau
Men die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease. They do not die of hard work.
David Ogilvy
It’s just a stupid excuse to wait for things to happen instead of making them happen.
Blair Waldorf
What you don’t sweat out when you’re young will turn into tears when you’re old.
Japanese proverb
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
Buddha
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
Alain de Botton
The wiser you get, the less you take yourself seriously, the more work looks like play.
Maxime Lagacé
Success at anything will always come down to this: Focus and effort, and we control both.
Dwayne Johnson
Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.
Gary Vaynerchuk
Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.
Barack Obama
What comes easy won’t last. What lasts won’t come easy.
Anonymous
Hard work betrays none.
Hachiman Hikigaya
Take up one idea, make that one idea your life. Think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Swami Vivekananda
Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.
Joan Didion
Without labor nothing prospers.
Sophocles