124 Hustle Quotes To Motivate You Big Time

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We all often need hustle quotes and words that can drive us on, on our way to success. Sometimes you need to be reminded of your starting point and the reason for it. The reason you had to get up early every morning and sleep late at night. The reason your weekends are spent working instead of hanging out with friends.

Why you’d rather attend a seminar than attend a party – just to meet a specific goal of yours. And why you spend cash on online courses to acquire the relevant knowledge needed to forge ahead with your plans, instead of spending that same money on clothes and shoes.

It is easy to give way to procrastination for short-term gains and put your dreams on hold. But success neither comes by accident nor luck. You have to put in the required work to make that dream a reality. 

And sometimes we break down in the process of working. What gets us going? 

Words! 

Hustle quotes, motivational, and inspirational words play a huge role in keeping us on track in the pursuit of our goals. 

What does it mean to Hustle?

To hustle is to strive resolutely towards a specific goal. And here are the 124 best hustle quotes you need right now!

1. “The fastest way to get what you actually want in your life is to drop the false belief that you must continue to wait in order to have it.” ― Richie Norton

2. “You are a ghost. Filled with stardust, wearing the bones as the shield and the skin as the cape. Fighting every day and opening up for the new wounds in the hustle of hiding the old scars.” – Akshay Vasu

3. “Whatever your hustle is, go somewhere with it.” – Tionne Watkins

4. “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” – Steve Jobs

5. “A lot of people hustle differently, and I was like, ‘You know what, let me hustle and create, and let me have something to show,’ cuz my hustle led to opportunity.” – Yvonne Orji

6. “He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb

7. “Everyone is where they are at because they worked hard for it. Don’t ever hate on someone’s hustle. Just figure out how you can get there.” Jo Koy

8. “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up.” – Robert Tew

9. “The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is by getting your hands dirty.”– Alex Spanos

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

11. “Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you.” – Henry J. Kaiser

12. “Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.”― Criss Jami

13 “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

14. “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” – Dale Carnegie

15. “I never wanted to take the easy way, and I was always willing to hustle.” – Bebe Rexha

16. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley

17. “People who laugh at your hustle or you hustling now, are the first people who will be asking for favors and help when you have made it.” ― De philosopher DJ Kyos

18. “WATCH out for your surroundings, UPGRADE your mindset and keep FOCUS.” – Surgeo Bell

19. “But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.” Kanye West

20. “Frugality was my side hustle. I was really good at it.” – Chris Sullivan

21. “The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.”- Vince Lombardi

22. “To achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must become someone that you have never been before.”– Les Brown

23.“Whatever you are, be a good one.” ― Abraham Lincoln

24. “The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn’t prepared to work for.”– Habeeb Akande

25. “I like to grind and not think too much about the good stuff. I like to focus on the stuff I need to get better at.” – Khalil Mack

26. “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – Lolly Daskal

27. “Keep the hustling up. I’ll see you at the top.” ― Jordan Hoechlin

28. “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

29. “When you see only problems, you’re not seeing clearly.”– Phil Knight

30. “I love the work, love the grind. I love what I have to go through to get what I want.” – Deshaun Watson

31. “I can nap with hustle and bustle around me; I can nap quietly all by myself. It’s something I’ve always been good at.” – Melissa Leo

32. “People do not become entrepreneurs; it is the matter of hustle they make physical, mental and social.” ― Deeksha Arora

33. “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

34. “If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with an 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 

35. “Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus.” – Helen Hanson

36. “You will never always be motivated. You have to learn to be disciplined.” – Unknown.

37. “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”– Vince Lombardi Jr.

38. “The hustle brings the dollar. The experience brings the knowledge. The persistence brings success.” – Ross Simmonds

39. “Renew your mindset, get to the market and fight for your pocket.” ― Omony Geoffrey Ocaya

40. “Strength is the product of struggle. You must do what others don’t achieve what others won’t.” – Henry Rollins

41. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” ― Thomas Alva Edison

42. “Skill is only developed by hours and hours of work.”– Usain Bolt

43. “Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan

44. “If you’re not willing to risk the usual, you’ll have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

45. “We do things we don’t want to do in order to avoid doing the things we actually want to do.”

― Cave Man, Modern Human’s Handbook

46. “There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you.”– Derek Jeter

47. “It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business.” – Mark Cuban

48. “To achieve anything we must grind, but to enjoy anything we must flow.”― Chris Matakas

49. “I’d rather hustle 24/7 than slave away 9-5.” – Fat Joe

50. “Ambition is not feminine and Hustle is not Masculine.” ― Goitsemang Mvula

51. “The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of. Not the circumstances.” – Unknown 

52. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali 

53. “Don’t befriend your competitors unless you’re using them for your advantage.” ― Thebe Kegomoditswe

54. “Hustle like no one is awake.”– Jill Telford

55. “Go hard or go home.” – Unknown

56. “You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic.” – Stephen C. Hogan 

57. “Good things happen to those who hustle.”– Anais Nin

58. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak

59. “Grind until you get it no matter what the haters say and never look back, keep striving cause it’s your life.”― Jonathan Anthony Burkett

60. “The load on your shoulders today will be the ground that you walk on tomorrow.”– Nicole Addison

61. “Success is what comes after you stop making excuses.”– Luis Galarza

62. “Those at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there.” — Marcus Washling 

63. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

64. “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.” – Don Zimmer

65. “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Abraham Lincoln

66. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle  

67. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”– Beverly Sills

68. “Success isn’t supposed to feel comfortable.” ― Jordan Hoechlin

69. “Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.” – Isabelle Lafleche 

70. “Every night, I try to hustle and do what I can do. And when you hit a ground ball, you should hustle.” – Steve Clevenger

71. “Sunflowers end up facing the sun, but they go through a lot of dirt to find their way there.” ― J.R. Rim

72. “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

73. “My legacy is that I will hustle and grind. No one will stop me from hustling. I’ll be where God wants me to be.” – August Alsina

74. “The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.” – Garth Henrichs

75. “Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb

76. “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” – Paul J. Meyer

77. “It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.”– Boris Johnson

78. “Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” – Jerry Rice

79. “The key to success is to start before you are ready.” – Marie Forleo

80. “You can NEVER be like someone else! Just be yourself and you will find that you’ll be much happier that way and accomplish more as well.”― Surgeo Bell

81. “Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary.” – Ross Simmonds

82. “It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.” – David Feherty

83. “A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work. “ – Colin Powell

84. “Two things that have been around before us and will be after us, and while we are here you will always choose one… EXCUSES or HUSTLE.” ― Sotero M Lopez II

85. “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

86. “There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up, never stop believing. Never stop fighting.” – Hope Hicks

87. “All my life, I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.” – Curtis Carlson

88. “I now tried a new hypothesis: It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be.” – Michelle Obama

89. “Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn’t give you credit.” – Kamari aka Lyrikal

90. “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. – Dwyane Wade

91. “Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a dance step – it’s an old business procedure.”  – Fran Lebowitz

92. “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

93. “When you find your “why” you find a way to make it happen.” – Eric Thomas

94. “Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle”– Ross Simmonds

95. “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, The Body Snatcher

96. “Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.” – Patti Smith

97. “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” – Herb Kelleher

98. “If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with an 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

99. “There’s a difference between fake hustle for show and being someone who tries hard to win.” – Manny Machado

100. “Know that you will make it big. Don’t stop your hustle.” ― Avijeet Das

101. “Some of the most beautiful things we have in life comes from our mistakes.” ― Surgeo Bell

102. “Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.” – Marica Wieder

 103. “Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it.”– Les Brown

104.“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale 

105. “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”– Peter Drucker

106. “You know you’re doing something right when you’ve haters around every corner.” ― Cliff Hannold

107. “Fortune sides with him who dares.” – Virgil

108. “I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn’t take any ability to hustle.” – Wade Boggs

109. “The hustle brings the dollar. The experience brings knowledge. Persistence brings success.” – Ross Simmonds

110. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” – Henry Ford

111. “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

112. “Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese proverb 

113. “I’ve got a dream that is worth more than my sleep.” – Eric Thomas

114. “You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.” – Jim Rohn

115. “I don’t make excuses. I hustle.” ― Avijeet Das

116. “I’m the one person who wears the words ‘hustle, loyalty, respect’ on my T-shirts and merchandise. My audience is children. It’s very flattering to see a kid wear your T-shirt; it’s even more flattering to have a dad come up to you and say, ‘I watch you with my kid. Keep doing what you’re doing. You’re a role model for my son.” – John Cena

117. “Destiny is for losers. It’s just a stupid excuse to wait for things to happen instead of making them happen.” – Blair Waldorf

118. “You can either complain about it or grind, I choose to grind.” ― Kyle Vidrine

119. “Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

120. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and reality.” ― Rodman Lu

121. “Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.” – Pat Riley

122. “You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you don’t mind failing.” – Philippos

123. “As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else’s hustle.” – John Ridley

124. “Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you.” – Henry J. Kaiser

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