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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.
Sep 18, 2025
Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.
Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Hard work is the price we must pay for success
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
The only way around is through.
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work
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.
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo 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.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!
Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want
Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Work hard at work worth doing.
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
All growth depends upon activity.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
The harder I work the more I live.
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.
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.
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.