Top 76 Hard Work But Worth It Quotes
#1. Eating raw was like getting a Ph.D. in a plant-based diet - hard work, but worth it.
Scott Jurek
#2. Recovery isn't easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you're willing to do. But it is worth every hard day, every tear, every terrified moment. It's worth it, because the trade-off is this: you let go of your eating disorder, and you get back your life.
Marya Hornbacher
#3. When he thought about how he wanted to build his career coming out of college, Hahn took inspiration from Theodore Roosevelt's famous dictum, "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."5
Reid Hoffman
#4. I like having a woman. I like having someone to come home to, to make all of the hard work feel worth it. I need someone with me. And I want someone.
Neil Diamond
#5. I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into something deep. But the fact remains that good sentences are hard won. Any writer worth a lick knows constructing a sentence, a paragraph, or a chapter is hard work.
Adam Ross
#6. The greatest gift life has to offer is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
#7. Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!
Henry James
#8. Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Teddy Roosevelt
#10. I want us to be together, Evelyn, which I know won't be easy, but nothing worth having ever comes easy. If there's something you want, you have to work hard to have it. And I want you.
Jaci Burton
#11. Sometimes, you gotta start small to fix what's broke. Even if it's hard work, it's worth each little step if it's something you love.
Laura Ware
#12. Do you know what directors go through? It's just hell. Like, why do I work so hard - to think I'm only going to see this movie five times and then never see it again 'cause I'm so sick of it? What is it worth, honestly?
Michael Bay
#13. He said a man should always have to work hard to win a woman's heart, because when he gets it, it's worth it, and he'll never take it for granted.
Adriana Trigiani
#14. Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amout of hard work that is put into it.
Calvin Coolidge
#16. But you make the rest hard too. Make me work for you. Make me earn your love. It's worth whatever price. Whatever cost. Don't let me come to expect easy with you. Make me want to work hard for you.
Nicole Williams
#17. You wake up, and you're nowhere.
One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
You wake up, and that's enough.
Chuck Palahniuk
#18. Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pu
Robert A. Heinlein
#19. While most are dreaming of success, winners wake up and work hard to achieve it. Anything worth having is hard work.
JB Lexington
#20. I've learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work.
Greg Behrendt
#21. It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it's 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that's 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I've done three hours worth of work.
Howie Mandel
#22. Sometime, Mrs. Truitt, we work very hard at something, we exhaust ourselves to accomplish something which seems vital to us." He chose his words with care. "Our best hope for happiness. And sometimes we find that thing, only to find it has simply not been worth the effort.
Robert Goolrick
#23. I didn't get fat even when I was pregnant. You have to work very hard at staying slim, and it's a bore. But it's worth it.
Mary Quant
#24. It is all very well and good for Linda Lovelace, the star of the movie, to advocate sexual freedom; but the energy she brings to her role is less awesome than discouraging. If you have to work this hard at sexual freedom, maybe it isn't worth the effort.
Roger Ebert
#25. Hard work by itself isn't worth two cents on a rainy day if it doesn't give you a good life.
Walter Dean Myers
#26. Nothing worth doing is easy," frank said. "Especially not in the beginning. But I'm not about to give up.
Morgan Matson
#27. You could buy a suckling pig with it, if you want to. You could raise it, and it would raise a litter of pigs, worth four, five dollars apiece. Or you can trade that half-dollar for lemonade, and drink it up. You do as you want, it's your money.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#28. There is nothing better than to make it to the College World Series. All of the extra reps in the weight room, all of the early morning practices, and all the hard work spent the entire year makes it worth it.
Jennie Finch
#29. Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.
Leona Lewis
#30. Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don't despise the hard work now for surely it will be worth it in the end.
Sanjo Jendayi
#31. Everyone makes sacrifices for their job; the movie's not saying that you don't have to work hard. The movie is saying that if you're going to work hard, then make it worth it, believe in what you're doing.
Anne Hathaway
#32. Everything is worth it. The hard work, the times when you're tired, the times where you're a bit sad ... In the end, it's all worth it because it really makes me happy. There's nothing better than loving what you do.
Aaliyah
#33. It can be difficult to be subtle and not cartoony in prosthetics. But when you see characters like Bubbles and Desiree from 'Little Britain' on screen, it makes all the hard work worth it. It's such fun watching those transformations.
David Walliams
#34. I learned that I had to work triply hard every time I started a new job in a newsroom to prove my value and worth.
Gretchen Carlson
#35. Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.
Criss Jami
#36. Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.
Bill Vaughan
#37. I was raised by a woman who knows her own worth, and her daughters firmly believe that life is much better for a woman when a man has to work really hard to get her. It's human nature to take better care of something you've worked for, whether it's a car or a wife.
Linda Howard
#38. The road to one's fate is never an easy task. What worth would eternity be if you didn't have to work hard to obtain it?
Maren Dille
#39. Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#40. New Life Realization #1:
Being an adult is hard work. I know people tell you this growing up, but it doesn't really sink in until you're living it, waist deep in the swamps of no-free-time and not-enough-money.
New Life Realization #2:
It's worth it.
Cora Carmack
#41. The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#42. I don't attend an actual school but I'm still following through with high school. I do work with a tutor for about six hours a day. It's hard core but definitely worth it, and it's my main focus now - finishing up high school before I release my new album and apply to college.
Jojo
#43. I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.
Criss Jami
#44. Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.
Henry Ward Beecher
#45. Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.
Seth Godin
#46. If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and selective with whom you work, you must constantly ask yourself the hard questions about your art, and you must set a nearly unattainable standard for yourself.
John Dyer Baizley
#47. Dig into almost every overnight success story and you'll find about a decade's worth of hard work and perseverance.
Austin Kleon
#48. To achieve success you will have to work hard and pray hard. Nothing worth having comes easy.
Jeanette Coron
#49. Very few things which are really worth achieving come easily. Sometimes they do, but most of the time you really have to work hard and cleverly.
Lewis Pugh
#50. That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. [BusinessWeek, May 25 1998]
Steve Jobs
#51. The girl wouldn't last the year. Girls like her were soft and easy to break. Lowborns always wanted glory until they realized the hard work it entailed. Darren had worked hard for everything, and a girl who tried to take that away? Well, she wasn't worth very much.
Rachel E. Carter
#52. And whoever will take that motto and live by it will be likely to succeed. There's many a way to win, in this world, but none of them is worth much without good hard work back of it.
Mark Twain
#53. It only looks easy to the outsider. So if you want this thing called success, get ready to work hard. It won't be easy and it isn't guaranteed. But if you dream big and give it your all, it will be worth it.
James Woosley
#54. I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can't explain. Something worth more than money.
Steven Herrick
#55. Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.
Booker T. Washington
#56. The road might seem long,
But the joy of arriving makes it all worth it.
All I have to do is be strong.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#58. The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?
Dada Bhagwan
#59. It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.
George Lucas
#60. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs
#62. Learning texts is worth doing not because it's easy but because it's hard.
Joshua Foer
#63. I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident ... Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Thomas A. Edison
#64. Excellence isn't about working extra hard to do what you're told. It's about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.
Seth Godin
#65. What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.
Jesse Helms
#66. Sit your affections, your heart and your precious time out on the doorstep without so much as making him ring the doorbell first, and he'll treat you like a doormat. Make him work a little to get next to you, and he won't stop til you're his.
Mandy Hale
#67. The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.
Kathleen Winsor
#68. Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#69. Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It's worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work.
Sarah Waters
#70. Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.
Robert A. Heinlein
#71. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort.
Chuck Palahniuk
#72. Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don't think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back.
Steve Goodier
#73. I push myself as hard as I can. Sometimes that can be painful and stressful but inthe end it's worth the price ... I like to play characters that I can draw from in my own life. I've invested so much of my life into my work that I almost don't have any choice.
Kristen Stewart
#74. Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.
Jamais Cascio
#75. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills
#76. There's no point putting your heart and soul into a part when you know in advance it isn't worth the trouble. I'm not speaking as a dedicated actress. Enthusiasm and hard work are requisites for any job a person undertakes. I tried working just for money once and it made me almost physically ill.
Lizabeth Scott
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