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Inspirational Quotes for Work

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To hustle is like being a farmer. Work first so you can enjoy all the fruits with your
loved ones later.
Jeremiah Say

Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.
Jerry Rice

The world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
James Allen

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.


Deepika Padukone

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

Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong.
Peter T. McIntyre

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If we did not sometimes
taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Josh Billings

You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it’s enough. It takes just one
star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.
Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in
the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the
greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize
will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful
personality and try to duplicate it.
Bruce Lee

This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in
the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
Alan Watts

Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a
hard-to-find alloy called guts.
Dan Gable

The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn’t
prepared to work for.
Habeeb Akande

If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can
succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.
Dr Roopleen

Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop
you. Only you can stop you.
Jeffrey Gitomer

Great souls have wills, feeble ones have only wishes.


Anon.

Habits are like cork or lead. They tend to keep you up or hold you down.
Anon.
There’s no job too immense, when you got confidence.
Elvis Presley

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are
determined to.
Henry van Dyke

When you have a lot of confidence and you feel like nobody can beat you, it’s game
over for everyone else.
Jason Day

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.


Eleanor Roosevelt

It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn
everyone when it comes to your business.
Mark Cuban

The hustle brings the dollar. The experience brings the knowledge. The persistence
brings success.
Ross Simmonds

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

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

You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of
yourself and see what happens.
Louise L. Hay

Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.


Angela Duckworth

I would rather risk wearing out than rusting out.


Theodore Roosevelt

It takes determination to see a dream come to pass. The question is not will you start,
but will you finish.
Joel Osteen
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret
of success.
Swami Sivananda

It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then
everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.
Mark Cuban

Believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to
follow your heart.
Steve Jobs

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the
fight in the dog.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.


Jimmy Johnson

All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.


John W. Gardner

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Alva Edison

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal, you do not
change your decision to get there.
Zig Ziglar

The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t
give up.
Robert Tew

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

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing
well too.
David Storey
Habit is overcome by habit.
Thomas à Kempis

The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress.
Dan Waldschmidt

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson

When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it
with them.
Karen E. Quinones Miller

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so
wonderful at all.
Michelangelo

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
Ben Carson

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can
make it.
Gale Sayers

Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people
have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.
T. Harv Eker

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and
that voice will be silenced.
Vincent van Gogh

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for
good health.
Dalai Lama

Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.


Dwayne Johnson

God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
Swedish Proverb
Discipline automates habits which, in turn, determine your outcomes.
David Khalil

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you
are willing to do it, that’s another matter.
Peter F. Drucker

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym, and
out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad Ali

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.


Og Mandino

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

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The
sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very
existence to the extent of its purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and
then do it.
Henry Ford

Fortune sides with him who dares.


Virgil

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who
have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
Go live a life worth living where, in the end, you’ll be able to say, “I’m glad I did,” not
“I wish I had.”
Gary Keller

If we attack our problems with determination we shall succeed.


Franklin Roosevelt

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.


Gary Vaynerchuk

There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
Vincent Lombardi

Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, others make it
happen.
Michael Jordan

Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired. You quit
when the gorilla is tired.
Robert Strauss

Give the world the best you have, and the best will come to you.
Madeline Bridge

If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still
do it.
Elon Musk

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of
a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

All the so-called ‘secrets of success’ will not work unless you do.
Jaymin Shah

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own
myth.
Rumi
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
Beverly Sills

When it comes to how we fare in the marathon of life, effort counts tremendously.
Angela Duckworth

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.


Brené Brown

To anyone that ever told you you’re no good…. They’re no better.


Hayley Williams

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.
Richard Branson

I know that if I fail I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing that I might regret
is not trying.
Jeff Bezos

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

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.


Sir Edmund Hillary

Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to
keep on the payroll.
Helen Hanson

Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of
you.
William James

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?
Ayn Rand

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.


Estee Lauder

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
Robert Half
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
Buddha

I’m a firm believer in if you work hard, you should play hard. So, I try to keep my life
as balanced as possible to keep my sanity.
Alicia Sacramone

Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not
love.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I love the work, love the grind. I love what I have to go through to get what I want.
Deshaun Watston

The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting
your hands dirty.
Alex Spanos

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s
determination.
Tommy Lasorda

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel

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

I rather hustle for a year than risk being a 9-to-5 slave forever.
Jeremiah Say

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