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100 Short Hard Work Quotes for When You are Ready to Hustle and Be Productive

Sometimes it can feel like hard work but anything you want to accomplish will require your undivided attention, and it’s always worth it. If you’re looking for motivation to work harder, check out these short hard work quotes that are motivational, funny, inspiring and perfect for women who are ready to hustle.

They say it takes roughly 10,000 hours to be really good at something or to do the same thing over and over again for 28 days to make it a habit. So when seeing your never-ending list of to-do’s or goals — or perhaps even that little voice inside your head that says, “One day I’m going to…” — remember that not only will it take a while, but it will also need a lot of hard work.

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Our Favorite Short Hard Work Quotes

“Sometimes there’s not a better way. Sometimes there’s only the hard way.” — Mary E. Pearson

“With hard work and effort, you can achieve anything.” — Antoine Griezmann

“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” — Gordon B. Hinckley

“Work harder than you think you did yesterday.” — Alex Elle

“A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.” — Ralph Lauren

“I work hard. But I play hard, too.” — Pitbull

“If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard; you’ll be hard to beat.” — Herschel Walker

“Go and get your things. Dreams mean work.” — Paolo Coelho

“I never took a day off in my 20s. Not one.” — Bill Gates

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“There’s no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession.” — Conor McGregor

“Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.” — Lowell Thomas

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” — Chris Grosser

“A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint.” — Sarah Price

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” — Beverly Sills

“Work hard. Play hard. Be kind.” — Harry Styles

“Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.” — Virat Kohil

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho

“It’s not about money or connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.” — Mark Cuban

“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” — Peter F. Drucker

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” — Michael John Bobak

“Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No Excuses.” — Kobe Bryant

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“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” — Abraham Lincoln

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” — Jim Rohn

“The future depends on what you do today.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” — Confucius

“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” — Estee Lauder

“Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.” — Lou Holtz

“Hard work is an essential element in tracking down and perfecting a strategy or in executing it.” — Charlie Munger

“Work and you’ll get what you need; work harder and you’ll get what you want.” — Prabakaran Thirumalai

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Hard work compounds like interest, and the earlier you do it, the more time you have for the benefits to pay off.” — Sam Altman

“Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.” — Patrick Suskind

“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

“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” — Olin Miller

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” — Stephen King

“To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all, cherish a magnificent obsession.” — Walt Disney

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“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” — Albert Einstein

“When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity.” — Steve Pavlina

“Don’t work for recognition but do work worthy of recognition.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” — Denis Waitley

“Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” — G.K. Neilson

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.” — Booker T. Washington

“I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.” — Margaret Thatcher

“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” — Bobby Unser

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

“When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.” — Bo Bennett

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” — Gen. George Patton

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“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” — Maya Angelou

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.“ — Winston Churchill

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” — Conrad Hilton

“The key to success is to develop a winning edge.” — Brian Tracy

“You’ll never achieve real success unless you like what you’re doing.” — Dale Carnegie

“Your attitude is either the lock on or key to your door of success.” — Denis Waitley

“If you want to be successful, find out what the price is and then pay it.” — Scott Adam

“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” — Aristotle Onassis

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” — Earl Nightingale

“If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.” — Malcolm X

“Success is a journey, not a destination.” — Arthur Ashe

If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Funny Work Quotes, Boss Day Quotes, Short Teamwork Quotes and Inspirational Work Quotes.

Motivational Quotes About Hard Work

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.” — Gen. Colin Powell

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” — Kevin-Prince Boateng

“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” — David Bly

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“Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.” — Hill Harper

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

‘There is no substitute for hard work.” — Thomas A. Edison

“The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.” — Dwayne Johnson

“With hard work and dedication, anything is possible.” — Timothy Weah

“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” — Ann Landers

“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.” — Margaret Mead

“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” — Harry Golden

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” — Jimmy Johnson

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.” — Henry Ford

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” — Stephen King

“There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as an overnight success or easy money.” — Henry Sy

Funny Quotes About Working Hard

“Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.” — Leslie Nielsen

“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.” — Claude McDonald

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” — Bill Gates

“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” — Edgar Bergen

“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” — Jerome K. Jerome

“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.” — Will Rogers

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

“The reward for good work is more work.” — Francesca Elisia

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“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” — Robert Frost

“People who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.” — Elbert Hubbard

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

“Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They’re about to announce the lottery numbers.​” — Homer Simpson

“Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.” — Iain Duncan Smith

Work smarter not harder.” — Allen F. Morgenstern

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Hard Work Pays Off Quotes

Below are some of the best hard work pays off quotes.

“Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.” — Dustin Lynch

“Hard work pays off. The harder you work, the more people will notice.” — Sydney Sweeney

“If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.” — Michael Jordan

“The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.” — Gabby Douglas

“Hard work pays off if you’re patient enough to see it through.” — Michael Chandler

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“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

“Laziness pays off overnight however hard work pays off throughout your life.” — Ahmed Ali

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.” — Calvin Coolidge

“It’s hard to beat a person who doesn’t give up.” — Babe Ruth

“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” — Jesse Owens

“The big talent is persistence.” — Octavia E. Butler

Work Hard Play Hard Quotes

“The goal is not simply to ‘work hard, play hard.’ The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable.” — Simon Sinek

“By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.” ­— Jim Rohn

“When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Work hard, play hard.” — Wiz Khalifa

“Life balance is a myth. It’s an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it’s about proportion – it’s really a work hard/play hard equation.” — Danielle LaPorte

“I’ve always had a ‘Work hard, play hard’ attitude to life – I still do – but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.” — Damian Lewis

“The old saying of work hard, play hard really works for me.” — Danielle LaPorte

“Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I’ve pretty much adopted that.” — James Patterson

“Practice hard, train hard, work hard, and play harder.” — Alcurtis Turner

“Screw work Hard Play Hard” . . . “II work smart 7 days a week and play hard 8 days a week” ― Kevin Kolenda

“Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to try to take it all away from you.” — Mark Cuban

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.” — Malcolm Gladwell

“Men die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease. They do not die of hard work.” — David Ogilvy

 “No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.” — Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential

“Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.” — Joseph Barbara

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“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.” — Pele

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

“If you work hard enough and assert yourself and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.” — Malcolm Gladwell

“My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.” — Mark Warner

“We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.” — Ariana Huffington

“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

“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.” — Barak Obama

“If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.” — Michelangelo

“At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.” — Kevin Hart

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.” — Thomas Edison

“There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” — Michael Phelps

“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

“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

“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

“People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.” — Frederick Douglass

Hard Work Sayings

“What is earned with hard labor is eaten with pleasure.”

“The king inherits a country — the people only hard work.”

“The hardest work of all is to do nothing.”

“He has hard work who has nothing to do.”

“When hard work goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window.”

“Whenever I work hard for other people, I always sleep on an empty stomach.”

“With hard work, you can get fire out of a stone.”

“Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it.”

“It is hard work to be the mother of many pigs.”

“Hope doesn’t guarantee anything; hard work does.”

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“If you have talent and you work long and hard at it, anything in the world can be yours.”

“If you continue to work hard, success will follow you.”

“How well you like hard work often depends on whether you are doing it or paying for it.”

“The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.”

“What you don’t sweat out when you’re young will turn into tears when you’re old.”

“The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.”

“Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.”

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Laynni Locke

I am Laynni Locke, a Canadian writer, reader and traveller with a passion for sharing life’s moments on social media. Keeping friends and family in the loop of our lives though photos and videos has become an essential activity for most.

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