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Work Ethic Quotes

Last updated: September 24, 2024

92 Work Ethic Quotes organized by Most Popular

“The road less traveled will never be crowded. Go the extra mile with work and you’ll go the extra mile in life.”
— Gloria Atanmo, From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the World
Tagged: Hard Work, Road Less Traveled
“And stop being in such a rush. There is no elevator to success; you have to take the stairs.”
— Khloé Kardashian, Strong Looks Better Naked
Tagged: Success, Hard Work, Relationships, Work
“Remember, true opportunity never knocks. I have found that I have to go looking for opportunity – and if I don’t find it, I have to create it.”
— Sumner Redstone, Commencement Address at DeVry University, 2010
Tagged: Commencement, Speech, Getting Ahead, Hard Work, Looking For Opportunity
“You always want to outwork your potential. As hard as you believe you can work, you can work harder than that.”
— Kobe Bryant, Mamba Mentality- Kobe Bryant (Motivational Video)
Tagged: Work Ethic, Hard Work
“Everyone reading this is so worried about their years, while continuing to waste their days. It’s all execution. You have to do. You have to move insanely fast in the micro and be insanely patient in the macro.”
— Gary Vaynerchuk, How Successful People Think
Tagged: Success, Mindset, winners, working towards your goal, Hard Work
“I suit up every night. Banged up, hurt, whatever. 100%, 30%. It ain't no numbers, it's my heart and you can't measure that.”
— Kevin Garnett, Kevin Garnett: Built Like This
Tagged: Basketball, Hard Work, persevering, perseverance
“Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.”
— David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big
Tagged: Dreams, Motivational, Hard Work
“It’s sometimes physically hard. But then the lights go down, you hear the crowd and you’re all better. You feel like, ‘OK, let’s do it.’”
— Tom Petty, Tom Petty's final interview: There was supposed to have been so much more
Tagged: Hard Work, perseverance, Musicians, Touring, concerts, tom petty, rock hall of fame, classic rock bands
“Knock me down 9 times, but I get up 10.”
— Cardi B
Tagged: Never Going Give Up, Keep Going, Hustle, perseverance, Quote of the Moment
“I was always a dreamer and I worked to make the dream come true.”
— Hugh Hefner, Hugh Hefner’s Final Interview Before His Death: ‘I’m Very Very Blessed’
Tagged: Hard Work, Dedication, Dream Big, Hugh Hefner, hugh hefner dead, Playboy, Playboy Mansion, hugh hefner age, aili nahas
“Love is hard work.”
— Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole
Tagged: Love, Hard Work, difficult, Challenge
“You don’t just wake up one day and find that everything has worked itself out. You must get out of bed, morning after morning, and make a conscious effort to control the circumstances of that given day.”
— Jordan, O N W A R D
Tagged: Effort, Hard Work, H4D-14, Inspirational
“Don't chase people. Be an example. Attract them. Work hard and be yourself. The people who belong in your life will come and stay. Just do your thing.”
— Unknown, Truth Follower
Tagged: Example, Hard Work
“I believe opportunity looks a lot like hard work.”
— Ashton Kutcher, Quoted_story Instagram
Tagged: Hard Work, Success, Relationships
“The great thing about being in your 20s is that you have absolutely nothing to lose. The worst that can happen is a rejection letter, which you can stash and use as motivation to keep working hard.”
— Kali Borovic, The Selfish Years: 10 Ways to Make the Most Out of Your 20s
Tagged: 20s, Twenties, rejection letter, motivation, Hard Work
“Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.”
— Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
Tagged: Message In A Bottle, Easy, Hard Work, Life Lessons
“Hey, if I don’t have a job, I don’t know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I’m ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I’ve never retired. I don’t even know what it means.”
— Morgan Freeman, 50 Celebrity Quotes On Success
Tagged: life advice, Hard Work
“When you're poor, only way to make money is to steal it or scam it.”
— Phillip 'Lip' Gallagher, Shameless, Shameless Season 3: The American Dream
Tagged: poor, Hustle, Making Money When You're Poor
“Life is not about warming yourself by the fire, life is about building the fire.”
— Larry Lucchino, Commencement Address at Boston University, 2008
Tagged: Commencement Speeches, Life, Hard Work, Work Ethic
“Every failure I have considered my own, but every success has been shared.”
— Michael J Fox, Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
Tagged: Failure, Success, Hard Work
“If you don't take the time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
— Michael J Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned
Tagged: Hard Work, Success, Time
“Work hard, know your shit, show your shit, and then feel entitled. Listen to no one except the two smartest and kindest adults you know, and that doesn't always mean your parents. If you do that, you will be fine.”
— Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?
Tagged: Hard Work, Parents, Advice
“Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face.”
— Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
Tagged: Hard Work, Motivational, Dreams
“Nothing great was ever achieved without a personal sacrifice. You have to pay the price to realize your goals.”
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Tagged: Hard Work, Success, Dreams, Motivational
“I don’t feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I’m an adult. I’m grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That’s why I’ve worked hard.”
— Beyoncé, 20 Of Beyoncé's Best & Most Brilliant Quotes
Tagged: adult, grown woman, Womanhood, maturity, Confidence, ability, Hard Work, Ambition
“If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.”
— Ross Perot
Tagged: Sacrifice, Effort, Hard Work, Action
“It was hard graft all the way and a good result in the end.”
— John Tyler
Tagged: Result, outcome, Ending, Hard Work
“As fas as I can tell, this is the main trick to getting good at stuff: the ultimate first step is to just realise that skill and talent are not innate; that all of this things come from hard work and that they are composed of a multitude of different things like self-control, and empathy, and like, just building and re-enforcing neural pathways over and over again…”
— Hank Green, How to Get Good at Everything
Tagged: Hard Work, Learning
“How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we give up on ourselves when our lives are just starting? Things get hard and we immediately back away and assume that means we're going in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. If anything, when the waters get thick, that's our sign to keep going.”
— Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic
Tagged: Never Give Up, Keep Going, Hard Work
“You have to do everything you can, you have to work your hardest, and if you do, if you stay positive, you have a shot at a silver lining.”
— Pat, Silver Linings Playbook
Tagged: Hard Work, positive, silver lining
“We have a very unconventional chemistry, it makes people feel awkward, but not me. Alright? She's the most beautiful woman I've ever been with. It's electric between us! Okay, yeah, we wanna change each other, but that's normal, couples wanna do that. I want her to stop dressing like she dresses, I want her to stop acting so superior to me, okay? And she wanted me to lose weight and stop my mood swings, which both I've done. I mean, people fight. Couples fight. We would fight, we wouldn't talk for a couple weeks. That's normal. She always wanted the best for me.”
— Pat, Silver Linings Playbook
Tagged: Hard Work, positive, silver lining
“If you like someone, you should have to make an effort. You should have to get to know the person -- you should have to work for that first kiss.”
— Rainbow Rowell, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
Tagged: Effort, Hard Work, Kisses, H4D-7
“Never ever refer to yourself as 'lucky' to be exactly where you’re meant to be. You worked for this. Take the credit. Absorb the praise. Dance in the light. This was ALL you.”
— Chidera Eggerue, Why Chidera Eggerue Won't Downplay Her Self-Assurance(And You Shouldn't Either)
Tagged: Luck, Credit, Meant To Be, Hard Work, Praise, Encouragement, Inspirational
“Been on my grind, taking what's mine, I got my eyes on the throne.”
— Mac Miller, Watching Movies
Tagged: grind, Mine, Eyes, throne, Prize, Hard Work, Dedication
“A little bit of luck helps, yes, but the key element, which too many in our affluent society have forgotten, is still hard work—grinding it out.”
— Ray Kroc, Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
Tagged: Luck, Hard Work
“Don't spam a stranger. Take your idea someplace else.”
— Anne T. Donahue, THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID: I Mean, Sure
Tagged: Writing, How to be a writer, Freelancing, Freelance Writing, Hustle
“An hour was allowed at noon for dinner and more chores. We stayed in the field until dark, then supper, and still more chores, family worship, and to bed; making all together a hard, sweaty day of about 16 or 17 hours. Think of that, ye blessed 8-hour-day laborers!”
— John Muir, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth: An Autobiography
Tagged: Dinner, chores, Hard Work
“You work hard to become who you are if you want to be someone.”
— Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart to date online, seeks man for bed, breakfast
Tagged: Hard Work, perseverance
“The only way to get lucky is to be prepared for luck to find you.”
— Bryan Cranston, A Life in Parts
Tagged: Luck, preparation, Effort, Hard Work
“Do not chase people. Be you and do your own thing and work hard. The right people who belong in your life will come to you, and stay”
— Unknown, Kirsten Corley
Tagged: Hard Work, Right People
“The only way to get what you want is through hard work.”
— Tiana, Disney's The Princess and The Frog
Tagged: Disney Princess, Hard Work
“I think it’s sexy that you’re such a hard worker.”
— Holly Riordan, 50 Compliments Women Desperately Want, But Men Never Give
Tagged: texts, compliments, Career, Hard Work
“I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.”
— Louis Sachar, Holes
Tagged: Never Give Up, Goals, Hard Work
“Work hard. Success won’t just knock on your door, you need to lure it and give it reasons why it should knock in the first place.”
— E.J. Cenita, 16 Powerful Life Lessons 2016 Taught All Of Us
Tagged: 20-something, Hard Work, Success
“When we see someone with well developed abs, we don't say, oh sure, he was born that way. Instead, we realize that a lot of effort went into it. The same thing ought to be true for people who understand science, or make good decisions, or are capable of emotional labor.”
— Seth Godin, The musclebound baby
Tagged: abs, Working Hard, Hard Work, What We Should Respect
“Worked so hard, forgot how to vacation.”
— Post Malone, Congratulations
Tagged: Hard Work, Work Ethic, Never Done, Always Working
“Passion without a true sense of purpose—without direction and a desire to work your ass off—is worthless.”
— Mélanie Berliet, This Is What Passion REALLY Means, Because It’s So Much More Than ‘Shark Tank’ Deals And Aha Moments
Tagged: Passion, Hard Work, H4D-44
“Keep working even when no one is watching.”
— Alex Morgan
Tagged: goal, Focus, Passion, Hard Work
“I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.”
— Wayne Rooney, 10 Famous Quotes From Soccer Player- Wayne Rooney
Tagged: Determination, Losing, Hard Work, motivational sports quotes, Motivational Sport Quotes
“It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved. I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are.”
— Emma Watson, Emma Watson Official Website
Tagged: Emma Watson Quotes, Being Fake, Relationships, Hard Work