We know that hustle is everything. If you want to be successful you need to work hard. Our work ethic is really important. And the history of all the greatest people in the world (e.g. basketball players, entrepreneurs) proves it. Below is a list of the most inspirational (motivational) quotes on hustle, grind, and hard work.
We’ve divided it into several sections to make it easier for you to read and navigate. Feel free to share it. Hard work quotes on this page will inspire. They will encourage you to do more so that you can get and be more. There are hard workers in every profession and every path of life. If you want to be a hard-working person, you must learn to take passion and value in your work. Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old hustle quotes, hustle sayings, and hustle proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
Hard Work & Grind Quotes
- Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.
- Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
- The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything.
- It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.
- You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.
- It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother’s lips to kiss you.
- I love what I’m doing most of the time, but it’s hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don’t know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
- Hard work – I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn’t fly. It’s all in the practice. It does take work and it ain’t easy – but man, the rewards!
- Sporting success doesn’t happen by accident. It takes hard work and determination on the part of the individual athletes. And it also takes investment in facilities and training support.
- There is no substitute for hard work. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really super-hard work, first in, last out. Mary Callahan Erdoesk. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really super-hard work, first in, last out.
- My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.
- We all naturally want to become successful… we also want to take shortcuts. And it’s easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.
- Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.
- 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.
- Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
- 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.
- 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.
- Inspiration is one thing and you can’t control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.
- Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication.
- To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing; it’s about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It’s about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.
- 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.
- Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
- 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.
- To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing; it’s about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It’s about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.
- I’m proud of my hard work. Working hard won’t always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I’ve wanted that I haven’t always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
- 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.
- Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.
- In baseball and in business, there are three types of people. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened.
- 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.
Hustle Quotes
- Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you.
- My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn’t due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
- What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.
- Some hustle for respect. Some hustle for love. Others hustle for truth. We all hustle to survive.
- When I started flirting with the hustle, failure became my ex. Now engaged to the game and married to success.
- But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.
- I want to be remembered like Pete Rose ‘Charlie Hustle.’ I want people to say, ‘Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.
- I just think a hustler’s ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I’ll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I’m their hero.
- Focused. I’m a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.
- Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t. So that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.
- Hustle isn’t just working on the things you like. It means doing the things you don’t enjoy so you can do the things you love.
- Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations.
- As a winner, learn not to let negative comments affect you. Just treat it as firewood that feeds your fire. Soon that fire will be so big and so bright that those who criticized you will smell the smoke, even if they happen to be on the other side of the world.
- Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn’t have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted… but I had that hunger for more. I didn’t always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes.
- I’m the one person who wears the words ‘hustle, loyalty, respect’ on my T-shirts and merchandise. My audience is children. It’s very flattering to see a kid wear your T-shirt; it’s even more flattering to have a dad come up to you and say, ‘I watch you with my kid. Keep doing what you’re doing. You’re a role model for my son.’
- Hustle is simple – it’s doing the work. A lot of people like to talk about it, a lot of people have ideas, but it’s difficult to actually do the work.
- Some people revel in getting their hands dirty. These are the people that make startups grow wildly. People with hustle also tend to be much more agile – they’re the water that goes around the rock. These are the people you want around when everything goes wrong. They’re also the people you want beside you when everything goes right.
- This industry is all about work, and just because Sundance exposed me to the world, it is my job to stay deserving in that world. The work never ends; the hustle just get harder, and you get stronger!
- I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up at 6, pack lunches, hustle the kids off to school, then brew a pot of coffee and head downstairs to the dungeon, as I call it: my cobwebby office in the basement.
- Quit hating and trying to be like the next man. Get on your own grind and be better than the next man, whether you gotta hustle, work a job or whatever. Just do you.
- If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession, be it music, the ballet or just a basic degree. You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.
- Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
- If a man is called a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
- You are a ghost. Filled with stardust, wearing the bones as the shield and the skin as the cape. Fighting every day and opening up for the new wounds in the hustle of hiding the old scars.
- 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.
- I want the peace in knowing that is wasn’t for lack of hustling that I missed a target for my dream. I want to know that the one thing in my control was under control.
- Quit hating and trying to be like the next man. Get on your own grind and be better than the next man, whether you gotta hustle, work a job, or whatever just do you.
- Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
- You’ve got to know how to hustle. I got a lot of inspiration from my parents. My father was definitely a hustler. With six kids in the house, you always got to be hustling. And my mom, she’s got sick work ethic.
Motivational & Inspirational
- The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.
- There is only one way to success. It’s called hard work.
- You can’t have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic.
- Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you.
- Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.
- Let them sleep while you grind. Let them party while you work. The difference will show.
- Hard work pays off – hard work beats talent any day, but if you’re talented and work hard, it’s hard to be beat.
- For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul.
- 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.
- Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
- Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
- Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.
- Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.
- The hard work puts you where the good luck can find you.
- Hard work has a future payoff; Laziness pays off now.
- I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business.
- Business opportunities are like buses: there’s always another one coming.
- If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It’s the ultimate hustle.
- Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.
- I like that band Get Hustle. They’re cool life. I haven’t heard their records, though.
- He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.
- The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up.
- Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.
- Some hustle for respect. Some hustle for love. Others hustle for truth. We all hustle to survive.
- You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.
- I’m sharp. What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing.
- What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time.
