Outwork the Competition Quotes
Talent is common; the will to outwork everyone is not. The man who gives more than is asked collects rewards the clock-watchers never see. This Productivity path holds history's hardest quotes on work ethic and the extra mile. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“No great achiever, even those who made it seem easy, ever succeeded without hard work.”
“Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.”
“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.”
“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.”
“The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it.”
“Anything in life worth having is worth working for.”
“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.”
“If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?”
“No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.”
“Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward. Work not for a reward, but never cease to do thy work.”
“Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.”
“You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground.”
“There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.”
“Skiing is a lot like life. It's a lot of hard work, and you get out of it what you put into it.”
“Quantity and persistence will get you the outcomes you need.”
“It's not about how many years of experience you have. It's about the quality of your years of experience.”
“Don't expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.”
“Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week for someone else.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.”
“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.”
“The thing most people don't pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It's 24/7.”
“Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.”
“Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something.”
“Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.”
“It's what you practice in private that you'll be rewarded for in public.”
“Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.”
“Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.”
“It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.”
“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit is persistence in practice.”
“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.”
“Hustle until you no longer need to introduce yourself.”
“The few who do are the envy of the many who watch.”
“If you're not pissed off for greatness, that just means you're okay with being mediocre.”
“You did not wake up today to be mediocre.”
“You can't have a million-dollar dream on a minimum wage work ethic.”
“When you feel like giving up, just remember that there are a lot of people you still have to prove wrong.”
“Train like an underdog, perform like a champion.”
“The reason people don't succeed is because they don't do the work.”
“Nothing great is given, it's earned.”
“The truth is, if you are not putting in the time, effort and energy every single day, someone else is.”
“Outwork everyone and convince yourself you deserve to win.”
“Winning in life goes to those with the best work ethic and the most information.”
“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.”
“If success were easy, everyone would do it. It takes effort. That fact works to your advantage because it keeps lazy people out of the game.”
“Labour is the source of every blessing.”
