15 quotes to help you understand the significance of hard work

Hard work is your best and biggest ally, both in good and prosperous times as well as in times of adversity and unimaginable distress. A strong work ethic, along with practicing self-control, persistence, and diligence, plays a key role in helping us achieve freedom and enjoy holistic success for years to come.

Here are some inspirational quotes to help you appreciate the value of hard work:

“Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.” — Jocko Willink

“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?... Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?’” ― Marcus Aurelius

“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.” — Gail Devers

“If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.” — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

“The people who are successful decide they are going to be successful. They make that choice. And they make other choices. They decide to study hard. They decide to work hard. They decide to be the first person to get to work and the last to go home. They decide they are going to take on the hard jobs. Take on the challenges. They decide they are going to lead when no one else will.” ― Jocko Willink

“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.” — Pele

“Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” — Dwayne Johnson

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

“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.” — Lou Holtz

“When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic — what defines a human being — is to work with others. Even animals know how to sleep. And it’s the characteristic activity that’s the more natural one — more innate and more satisfying.” ― Marcus Aurelius

“There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.” — Hope Hicks

“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.” — Pope Paul VI

“If you're not willing to put in the hard work, to endure and fail, there's no point. You win only if you're willing to do whatever it takes.” — Hidilyn Diaz

“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.” — Ann Landers

“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” — Gordon B. Hinckley