Motivational Quotes about Hard Work
When you are building a business, raising children, writing a book, creating art, or working hard to succeed in life, it always helps to have some inspiration and motivation to push you in the back and encourage you to keep going. Sometimes the work can feel tedious, or the progress moves slowly, and you may be tempted to give up, but reading these quotes will fill you with a fresh gust of inspiration to keep going and feel confident assurance that your hard work will pay off.
“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work…”
― Albert Einstein
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
― Thomas A. Edison
“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking
“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert
“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
“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy
“We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work”
― Thomas A. Edison
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
― Aristotle
“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti
“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 Bronte, Wuthering Heights
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
― Émile Zola
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”
― Lao Tzu
“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
“The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.”
― Steven Pressfield
“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.”
― Arthur Miller
“Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
― Mark Twain