Quotes About Motivation

All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.

A man works hard all week to keep his pants off all weekend.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

If you're excited about what you're doing, it's a lot more likely that your employees will also be excited. People want to work for a person, not a company. It's about relationships.

Hard work is good for the soul, and it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don't have time.

I would like to instill in people just to work hard. As long as they keep at it, their dreams will happen.

One day man will connect his apparatus to the very wheel work of the universe. The very forces that motivate the planets in their orbits and cause them to rotate will rotate his own machinery.

You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.

The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.

It's hard to play well, but it's easy to work hard.

No one gives you anything in life. You gotta work hard and go after it to get it.

I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.

Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.

You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work.

Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.

The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.

Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving and forgiving, understanding and tolerant we can be.

I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read all the great philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinine.

Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.