- “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
- “Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.” ― Liza Wiemer
- “For our success to happen, millions of billions of things, the vast majority of which were neither in our control nor in our awareness, needed not only to happen but also to happen how, when, where, and—in some cases—for how long, they have happened; and to happen to the things and the people to whom they have happened.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
- I would rather risk wearing out than rusting out. Theodore Roosevelt
- Part 1. So you were born to feel “nice”? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Marcus Aurelius
- Amateurs are busy and tense. Professionals are calm and focused. Maxime Lagacé
- Go and get your things. Dreams mean work. Paulo Coelho
- “Wrote my way out of the hood…thought my way out of poverty! Don’t tell me that knowledge isn’t power. Education changes everything.” ― Brandi L. Bates
- “Life sometimes delays giving us the thing we are forever praying or working hard for, until it has managed to show us that that thing is not that important, or important at all.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard. Kevin Durant
- To achieve what 1% of the world’s population has, you must be willing to do what only 1% dares to do. Manoj Arora
- “A positive mindset alone in the absence of hard work will get you nowhere.” ― Ken Poirot
- “You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can’t have more than you have until you do better than you’re doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can’t do better than you’re doing until you can have more than you have.” ― Criss Jami, Healology
- Work hard now, suffer and keep it up. Rewards are at the edge. Maxime Lagacé
- It’s not about money or connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone. Mark Cuban
- Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Helen Hanson
- There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life. Alain de Botton
- “… Bear up until you see you’re gaining.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- “I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself. Alan Alda
- Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it. Madeleine L’Engle
- Work incessantly, but be not attached to it. Swami Vivekananda
- It’s only a crazy dream until you do it. Serena Williams
- If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures. Gaius Musonius Rufus
- The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand
- “I can only strive for what is important” ― Rosie Thomas, Iris & Ruby
- Without labor nothing prospers. Sophocles
- Baby steps are better than no steps at all. Keep going. You’ll get there. Unknown (See also: Monday motivation quotes)
- “Nothing tastes better than the fresh picked fruits of your own labor. No air smells sweeter than when supplied by flowers grown with your own two hands.” ― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
- “Hard worker is always a positive thinker.” ― Md Parvej Ansari