Hard Work Proverbs

Sayings about Hard Work

What is earned with hard labor is eaten with pleasure. ~ Chinese Proverb

The king inherits a country — the people only hard work. ~ Malagasy Proverbs

He has hard work who has nothing to do. ~ Traditional Proverb

When hard work goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window. ~ Dutch Proverbs

The hardest work of all is to do nothing. ~ Traditional Proverb

Whenever I work hard for other people, I always sleep on an empty stomach. ~ Bantu Proverb

With hard work, you can get fire out of a stone. ~ Dutch Proverb

The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven. ~ American Proverbs

It is hard work to be the mother of many pigs. ~ Tibetan Proverbs

Quotations about Hard Work

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ~ Thomas Jefferson

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have. ~ Coleman Cox

I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody. ~ Dean Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

It’s no credit to anyone to work too hard. ~ Edgar Watson Howe

Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world. ~ Col. Harland Sanders

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. ~ George Carlin

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work. ~ Jessica Savitch

It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work. ~ Edith Hamilton

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work ~ Evelyn Ashford

Hard work is the key to success. ~ Charles Lazarus

Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it. ~ Author Unknown

If you have talent and you work long and hard at it, anything in the world can be yours. ~ Author Unknown

I’ve met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time. ~ Bill Gold

The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment. ~ Robert Dole

If you continue to work hard, success will follow you. ~ Author Unknown

Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. ~ Vince Lombardi

How well you like hard work often depends on whether you are doing it or paying for it. ~ Author Unknown

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation. ~ Charles Evans Hughes

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. ~ Thomas A. Edison

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty. ~ Bible

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. ~ Colin Powell

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work. ~ Sir Isaac Newton

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it. ~ Ray Bradbury

I don’t believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear — the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don’t understand what hard work is all about. ~ A.L. Williams

My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work. ~ Rosa Parks

I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit. ~ Helena Rubinstein

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work. ~ Thomas A. Edison

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last. ~ Hamilton Holt

I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God. ~ Florence Griffith-Joyner

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

By working hard, you get to play hard, guilt-free. ~ Jim Rohn

Work hard. Hard work is the best investment a man can make. ~ Charles M. Schwab

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance? ~ Ronald Reagan

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished. ~ Author Unknown

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price. ~ Vince Lombardi

Love conquers all, but if love doesn’t do it, try hard work~ Author Unknown

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren’t is the willingness to work very, very hard. ~ Helen Gurley Brown

The only genius that’s worth anything is the genius for hard work. ~ Kathleen Winsor

If a job’s worth doing, it’s too hard. ~ Scott Adams

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. ~ Robert Half

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win. ~ Nadia Comaneci

Hope doesn’t guarantee anything; hard work does. ~ Author Unknown

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~ Newt Gingrich

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’ ~ Don Marquis

What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. ~ Stephen King

I learned the value of hard work by working hard. ~ Margaret M. Fitzpatrick

The only difference between dreams and achievements is hard work. ~ Chris Bollwage.

Hard work cheerfully done is easy work, while light work unwillingly done is mere drudgery. ~ E.P.Day

Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people’s hard work is rewarding and faster. ~ Scott Adams

There is no substitute for hard work. ~ Thomas Edison

Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top. ~ William Feather

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all. ~ Sam Ewing

People say they love hard workers but they really love natural talent–a bias with troubling implications when it comes to hiring. ~ Eric Jaffe

I am no stranger to working hard. I have done it all my life. As a result I have become accustomed to expecting success in everything I do. Some people call me lucky, but I know better. ~ Donald Trump

It just seems so useless to have to work so hard and nothin’ ever really seems to come from it. ~ Tom Petty

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. ~ Horace

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it. ~ Zig Ziglar

Those who work much do not work hard. ~ Henry David Thoreau

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. ~ Lane Kirkland

Far away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Hard work never hurt anyone who hired someone else to do it. ~ Evan Esar

How hard you work matters more than how much you make. ~ Michelle Obama

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything you can’t do if you want to. ~ Jim Henson

40 Hard Work Quotations more

1. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. – Colin Powell, American statesman
2. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. – Ann Landers, American advice columnist
3. All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point. – Eric Thomas, American motivational speaker
4. Nothing is impossible when you put your mind, heart, soul, and sweat into it. – Unknown
5. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. – Vince Lombardi, American football coach
6. The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. – John Ruskin, English writer and art critic
7. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon, British hairstylist and businessman
8. If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission. – Unknown
9. There is no substitute for hard work, but there is always something else you can do. – Unknown
10. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. – Robert Collier, American author
11. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. – Colin Powell, American statesman
12. Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. – Malcolm Gladwell, Canadian journalist and author
13. Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people. – Unknown
14. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. – Steve Jobs, American businessman and inventor
15. There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others. – George Shinn, American businessman and former owner of the NBA’s Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets
16. There is no shortcut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation—vocation, character, education, and service. – David O. McKay, American religious leader and educator
17. Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. – Dale Carnegie, American writer and lecturer
18. Work harder than anyone else and you will achieve what no one else can achieve. – Unknown
19. The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet
20. There’s no such thing as a free lunch. – Unknown
21. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. – Franklin D. Roosevelt, American statesman
22. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt, American statesman
23. You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic. – Stephen C. Hogan, American politician
24. Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. – Oprah Winfrey, American media executive
25. You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going
26. The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph! ~ Marvin Phillips, Author and Speaker
27. In the end, hard work is the true wisdom. ~ Charles Buxton, Writer and Politician
28. I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard. ~ Maria Bartiromo, Journalist and Author
29. The more I practice, the luckier I get. ~ Gary Player, South African Golfer
30. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~ Beverly Sills, Opera Singer
31. No great achiever — even those who made it seem easy — ever succeeded without hard work. ~ Jonathan Sacks, Rabbi and Scholar
32. 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, Brazilian Footballer
33. Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. ~ Stephen King, Author
34. I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical. ~ Bill Gates, Co-Founder of Microsoft
35. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~ Thomas Edison, Inventor and Businessman
36. We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist and Science Communicator
37. Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. ~ Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Actor and Former Professional Wrestler
38. Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it. ~ Andre Agassi, Former Tennis Player
39. There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success. ~ Heather Bresch, CEO of Mylan
40. A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~ David Brinkley, News Anchor