If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past couple of years than you are probably familiar with the term hustle. Famous social media influencers like Gary Vee and Casey Neistat often talk about the importance of having hustle.
Some people have a negative association with the term hustle, but in entrepreneurship hustle simply means to work hard and get things done.
Many people want to start their own business and make an impact on the world. We are inundated with pictures and videos on social media glamorizing the entrepreneurial lifestyle. However, what many people don’t realize is how difficult it is to be successful.
It takes a lot of hard work and sacrifice for an extended period of time. Yes, it takes hustle too.
Whenever I’m in a creative slump or just not in the mood to work, I like to read inspiration quotes. It’s like getting advice from some of the most intelligent and successful people that ever lived.
The other day I was really dragging my feet. I had worked a 12-hour day and I still needed to write a blog post. I was in desperate need of inspiration, so I started reading some quotes on hustle. It was just what I needed.
Whether it was something from Gary Vee or the wise old Abraham Lincoln, it seems like every successful person in history has spoken about the importance of hustle.
In this article I wanted to share with you some of the best quotes that I’ve found on hustle. Here are my favorite 101 inspirational quotes on hustle. Enjoy!“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln
1. “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
2. “You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic.” – Stephen C. Hogan
3. “Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” – Jerry Rice
4. “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.” -Don Zimmer
5. “When I was young, I observed that nine out of 10 things I did were failures. So I did 10 times more work.” – George Bernard Shaw
6. “Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.” – Sophia Loren
7. “If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession, be it music, the ballet or just a basic degree. You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.” – Henry Rollins
8. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” – Stephen King
9. “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.” – Margaret Thatcher
10. “Hustle beats talent, when talent doesn’t hustle.” – Ross Simmonds
11. “It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business.” – Mark Cuban
12. “Mine’s a pretty simple strategy: there’s not a lot of talent here, but there’s a lot of hustle. I have to be in every place I can, and be busy.” – Ryan Seacrest
13. “Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary.” – Ross Simmonds
14. “Good things happen to those who hustle.” – Anais Nin
15. “Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb
16. “Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a dance step – it’s an old business procedure.” – Fran Lebowitz
17. “I never wanted to take the easy way, and I was always willing to hustle.” – Bebe Rexha
18. “There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.” – Hope Hicks
19. “The hustle brings the dollar. The experience brings the knowledge. The persistence brings success.” – Ross Simmonds
20. “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
21. “The best kinds of people in your life aren’t those who gather to celebrate your success, but those who gather to help your hustle.” – Usman Ismaheel
22. “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
23. “Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.” – Anonymous
24. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
25. “You gotta run more than your mouth to escape the treadmill of mediocrity. A true hustler jogs during the day, and sleepwalks at night.” – Jarod Kintz
26. “Hustle until you no longer need to introduce yourself.” – Anonymous
27. “The longer you’re not taking action the more money you’re losing” – Carrie Wilkerson
28. “I’d rather hustle 24/7 than slave away 9-to-5.” – Fat Joe
29. “Hustle isn’t just working on the things you like. It means doing the things you don’t enjoy so you can do the things you love.” – Unknown
30. “Don’t stay in bed unless you can make money in bed.” – George Burns
31. “I’ve got a dream that’s worth more than my sleep.” – Unknown
32. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
33. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
34. “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.” – David Rockefeller
35. “Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
36. “Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda
37. “The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.” – Garth Henrichs
38. “The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.” – George Bernard Shaw
39. “I want the peace in knowing that it wasn’t for lack of hustling that I missed a target for my dream. I want to know that the one thing in my control was under control.” – Jon Acuff
40. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” -Thomas Edison
41. “It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.” – Vince Lombardi
42. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!” – Jonathan Winters
43. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
44. “My entire life can be summed up in four words: I hustled. I conquered.” – Unknown
45. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shots and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
46. “Hustle in silence and let your success make the noise.” – Unknown
47. “Success in general is a well-balanced blend of luck, DNA, confidence, and hustle.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
48. “Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.” – Abraham Lincoln
49. “Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” – Vaibhav Shah
50. “All the so-called ‘secrets of success’ will not work unless you do.” – Jaymin Shah
51. “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
52. “Some hustle for respect. Some hustle for love. Others hustle for truth. We all hustle to survive.” – Unknown
53. “Business opportunities are like buses: there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson
54. “Hustle is the most important word – EVER.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
55. “I’m from where your hustle determines your salary.” Rick Ross
56. “Life is short. Don’t be lazy.” –Sophia Amoruso
57. “Lift up the weak; inspire the ignorant… Rescue the failures; encourage the deprived! Live to give… Don’t only hustle for survival.” –Israelmore Ayivor
58. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” –Estee Lauder
59. “If you have dreams then wake up early, put on your boots, and start your hustle.” ― Avijeet Das
60. “When the results are not there, work. When the results are there, work.” ― Chinonye J. Chidolue
61. “Maybe the cure for any burnout is to work harder.” – Phil Knight
62. “Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.” – Natalie Massenet
63. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” – Thomas Edison
64. “I’m sharp. What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing.” – Pitbull
65. “You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.” – Brene Brown
66. “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” -Herb Kelleher
67. “I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it, and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.” – Roald Dahl
68. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined!” -Thoreau
69. “To be contented—that’s for the cows.” – Diana Vreeland
70. “The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.” – Vince Lombardi
71. “Make it work.” – Tim Gunn
72. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The next best thing is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
73. “Live every week like it’s Shark Week.” – Tracy Jordan
74. “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old. They grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” – Gabriel García Márquez
75. “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.” – Stephen Hawking
76. “Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.” – Virginia Woolf
77. “You can’t begin and then stop. If you begin, you must keep on beginning: that’s the truth. No rest for the wicked.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
78. “Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy.” – Donald Trump
79. “Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it.” – Les Brown
80. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
81. “Strength is the product of struggle. You must do what others don’t to achieve what others wont.” – Henry Rollins
82. “The sweat. The time. The devotion. It pays off.” – Unknown
83. “It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.” – Boris Johnson
84. “A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” – Colin Powell
85. “Skill is only developed by hours and hours of work.” – Usain Bolt
86. “When you find your why, you find a way to make it happen.” – Eric Thomas
87. “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” – Peter Drucker
88. “What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That’s the secret of my life.” – Guy Kawasaki
89. “Guys who might not be superstars but because of their hustle, because of the little things they do, these are the guys who can really mean the difference between winning and losing.” – Dwayne Wade
90. “I don’t even need to know – if you have something to prove to your old boss or your dad or your third grade teacher or yourself, it doesn’t matter. You need that hustle and that fire, and I don’t care where it comes from.” – Emily Weiss
91. “Whatever your hustle is, go somewhere with it.” – Tionne Watkins
92. “Every day’s a hustle.” – Richard Linklater
93. “At Uber, we say, ‘Always be hustling.’ Even if you are an introvert and you haven’t got hustle in you, you better get a co-founder who does. And if you haven’t got enough hustle to find a co-founder who’s got hustle, it’s going to be tough. You’ve got to have a little hustle in you.” – Travis Kalanick
94. “Entrepreneurism is simply taking nothing, applying talent, brains, financial creativity and hustle, and turning that into something.” – Brock Pierce
95. “There’s a difference between fake hustle for show and being someone who tries hard to win.” – Manny Machado
96. “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” – Confucius
97. “Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.” – St. Jerome
98. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
99. “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
100. “There are easier places to work but no one ever changed the world working 40 hours per week.” – Elon Musk
101. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln
