1. Home
    2.  › 
  2. Pages
    3.  › 
  3. Work Ethic Quotes

Work Ethic Quotes

Work Ethic Quotes

Last updated: October 19, 2023

44 Work Ethic Quotes organized by Most Popular

“You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.”
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Tagged: Hard Work, Creativity
“It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.”
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
Tagged: Success, Dreams, Hard Work
“You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”
— Jim Carrey, Commencement Speech
Tagged: Dreams, Hard Work, Career
“If you think success is predetermined by talent, it becomes a product of something you can’t change. But if you look at it as a product of hard work, then it’s up to you to control the outcome.”
— Anders Weiss, Training for the Olympics Taught Me the Secret to Life
Tagged: Hard Work, Effort, payoff, olympics, athletes, Talent, outcome
“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
“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
“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
“If it were easy, everybody would do it. Hard is what makes it great.”
— Tom Hanks, A League Of Their Own
Tagged: inspiration, motivation, Hard Work, Work, Change, Growth, Personal Development, Overcoming Obstacles, Challenges, Challenging Yourself
“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Tagged: Hard Work, Dreams
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Tagged: Success, Hard Work, Failure, Dreams
“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Happiness, Hard Work, Life
“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Tagged: Dreams, Motivational, Hard Work
“Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.”
— Mary E. Pearson, The Fox Inheritance
Tagged: Hard Work, Dreams, Motivational
“Work is finding yourself alone at the track when the weather kept everyone else indoors. Work is pushing through the pain and crappy first drafts and prototypes. It is ignoring whatever plaudits others are getting, and more importantly, ignoring whatever plaudits you may be getting. Because there is work to be done. Work doesn’t want to be good. It is made so, despite the headwind.”
— Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Tagged: Greatness, Work, Hard Work, Work Ethic
“The most helpful advice I can give you is to work hard. Take it or leave it.”
— Grace Helbig, Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-Up
Tagged: Advice, Hard Work, Success
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.”
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Tagged: Hard Work, Success, Dreams
“Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Tagged: Career, Dreams, Hard Work
“A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.”
— Michael J Fox, Lucky Man: A Memoir
Tagged: Creativity, Hard Work
“I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.”
— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
Tagged: Love, Passion, Hard Work
“If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything. ”
— Marty McFly, Back to the Future (1985)
Tagged: Dreams, Hard Work
“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
“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.”
— Stephen King, Duma Key: A Novel
Tagged: Talent, Hard Work, Quit, Stephen King Quotes, Self Worth
“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
“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Tagged: Hard Work, Goals, laziness
“I really believe that you have to earn things. I don't feel comfortable unless I have worked really hard.”
— Emma Watson, 25 Perfect Quotes from Birthday Girl Emma Watson
Tagged: Hard Work, comfortable, Dreams, Achievement, Emma Watson Quotes
“How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.”
— Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve
Tagged: Happiness, Hope, earn, Hard Work, hard work pays off, little things, Life, beauty, deserving, Wealth, Values
“The thing I love most about my generation — and something that rarely gets recognized — is that we’re fucking hustlers. We make it work. We get that money. We’re innovative and resourceful. The odds may be stacked against us and yet we still find a way to triumph.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 20-Somethings Aren't Lazy!
Tagged: 20s, Twenties, twenty-somethings, Success, Hard Work
“A marriage is hard work and sometimes it’s a bit of a bore. It’s like housework. It’s never finished. You’ve just got to grit your teeth and keep working away at it, day after day.”
— Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary: A Novel
Tagged: Marriage, Effort, Hard Work
“It doesn't matter if thousands of people believe in you, unless You believe in You.”
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
Tagged: Hard Work, Dreams
“Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.”
— Stephanie Lahart, Overcoming Life's Obstacles: Enlighten-Encourage-Empower
Tagged: Hard Work, Dreams, Self-Love
“If every day you are not paying the
price to make your dreams come true,
then your everyday is a price that you
are paying to stop your dreams
coming true.”
— Moffat Machingura, Life Capsules
Tagged: Dreams, Career, Hard Work
“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”
— Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
Tagged: Hard Work, Passion, Patience, Career
“But you don’t get the girl until you’ve gotten the girl. And even then you have to put in the effort every single day to keep her. You don’t win before you’ve won. You keep playing, and fighting for love every day.”
— Lauren Blakely, Sinful Nights Bundle: Books 1-3
Tagged: Hard Work, Effort, Relationships
“Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.”
— Tina Fey, Bossypants
Tagged: Hard Work, Problem Solving
“Focus on being productive instead of busy.”
— Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Tagged: productive, Busy, Hard Work