Outwork the Competition Quotes

“If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?”

“Play by the rules, but be ferocious.”

“Competition breeds excellence.”

“Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”

“Quantity and persistence will get you the outcomes you need.”

“Success is a garden cultivated through effort”

“Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.”

“It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.”

“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”

“If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.”

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”

“The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.”

“Someone busier than you is running right now.”

“Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.”

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”

“You can't have a million-dollar dream on a minimum wage work ethic.”

“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”

“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.”

“Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you do things right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”

“Nobody cares. Work harder.”

“The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.”

“Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week for someone else.”

“Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.”

“If you're not pissed off for greatness, that just means you're okay with being mediocre.”

“There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.”

“Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

“It's very easy to be different but very difficult to be better.”

“Anything in life worth having is worth working for.”

“The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.”

“To give any less than your best is to sacrifice a gift.”

“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.”

“I don't count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. When I feel pain, that's when I start counting, because that's when it really counts.”

“You cannot cheat the grind; it knows how much you have invested.”

“Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.”

“I've always tried to go one step past wherever people expected me to end up.”

“There is no substitute for hard work. No one has ever drowned in their own sweat.”

“Just say to yourself, how bad do I want this? Am I working harder than the person who will be standing next to me?”

“The thing most people don't pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It's 24/7.”

“The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.”

“If a man does his best, what else is there?”

“You only have to do a few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.”

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.”

“The only place that success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

“If you can't outplay them, outwork them.”

“If you want to be successful, you've got to be willing to do what others won't.”

“Look in the mirror. That's your competition.”

“Work harder on you than everyone else and you will become unusually successful.”

“You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground.”

“You will succeed because most people are lazy.”

“If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?”

“When you feel like giving up, just remember that there are a lot of people you still have to prove wrong.”

“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.”

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

“Winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else.”

“I've always believed that if you're going to do something, you should do it as well as you can.”

“Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.”

“No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.”

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

“The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it.”

“Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.”

“The man who has done his best has done everything.”

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

“Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.”

“Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.”

“Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.”

“Don't dream of winning, train for it!”

“My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.”

“The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress.”

“Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.”

“It's not about how many years of experience you have. It's about the quality of your years of experience.”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel.”

“There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.”

“Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.”

“Hard work and dedication can take you further than you think”

“Skiing is a lot like life. It's a lot of hard work, and you get out of it what you put into it.”

“Do every job you're in like you're going to do it for the rest of your life and demonstrate that ownership of it.”

“Play like a champion today.”

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”

“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”

“You don’t need to be the smartest guy in the room, just the hardest working”

“Hard work is a two-way street. You get back exactly what you put in.”

“A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.”

“No great achiever, even those who made it seem easy, ever succeeded without hard work.”

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”

“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit is persistence in practice.”

“Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.”

“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...”

“The few who do are the envy of the many who watch.”

“Hustle beats talent when talent doesn't hustle.”

“Much effort, much prosperity.”

“Always deliver more than expected.”

“Why put out something less when you can put out something more?”

“It's what you practice in private that you'll be rewarded for in public.”

“It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.”

“Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.”

“Being an entrepreneur is being willing to do a job that no one else wants to do, in order to be able to live the rest of your life doing whatever you want to do.”

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

“I studied the lives of great men and women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.”

“What is in us, we have no idea, until we start trying hard. It's not always meant to be fun. And that's when you know you're trying hard.”

“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”

“It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.”

“I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.”

“Hustle until you no longer need to introduce yourself.”

“Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward. Work not for a reward, but never cease to do thy work.”

“No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.”

“The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.”

“Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it, they will want to come back and see you do it again, and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.”

“Whatever you do, do with all your might.”

“You did not wake up today to be mediocre.”

“Go the extra mile. There's no one on it!”

“Don't think what's the cheapest way to do it or what's the fastest way to do it. Think what's the most amazing way to do it.”

“Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.”

“All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.”

“Be polite, on time, work really hard until you are talented enough to be blunt, a little late, and take vacations.”

“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”

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

“Success in life is in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.”

“The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked really hard”

“Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it”

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”

“Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.”

“The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.”

“Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top.”

“Don't expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen.”

“Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.”

“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.”

“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.”

“No one can make you work harder than you do.”

“You have to do what others won't to achieve what others don't.”

“Success is just a war of attrition. If you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.”

“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”

“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.”

“Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it.”

“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.”

“If you breathe it and sleep it and every single minute is your business, you will succeed. You will learn from any mistakes that you make and you will grow from those mistakes.”

“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.”

“He who sweats more in training bleeds less in war.”

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

“Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.”

“Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral. Pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.”

“A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.”

“The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.”

“You don't set out to build a wall. You say, 'I'm going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.' You do that every single day. And soon you have a wall.”

“Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you.”