The only way to get ahead in life is to always stay on your grind, and these hustle quotes will inspire that mover and shaker in you to keep steady.

If you know someone else like you that hustles hard, then share these quotes about hustling with them that the two of you mutually understand and embrace.

You hear the word ‘hustle’ a lot lately – but what does it really mean?

Entrepreneurs do it, millennials are after it, and successful people swear by it.

No, ‘hustling’ has nothing to do with scamming or forcing someone to do something (although that’s the original definition).

‘Hustle’ today means going after what you want – by spending all your time and energy on working harder than everybody else.

Sounds simple enough, right?

In fact, many people claim that they hustle day and night.

But you’ll be surprised that they haven’t reached their goals yet.

To hustle means to want something more than anybody else that you’re willing to put in the extra work hours.

Often, it could mean missing out on Netflix binges or setting aside vacation plans until next month.

Hustling involves sacrifices.

But it’s in those losses that people can gain what they really want.

Even former U.S. president Abraham Lincoln spoke of hustle.

Truly successful people throughout history: from Theodore Roosevelt, Frederick Douglass, to Gary Vaynerchuk and Tony Robbins, all hustled to be where they are now.

Got a goal you’ve been dreaming about?

Feel a bit stuck in life?

Maybe these quotes about hustling are just what you need to get you going.

If you need some motivation to help you keep going until you hit your goldmine, be sure to check out our collection of never give up quotes.

Inspirational Hustle Quotes For Ambitious People

1. “Things may come to those who wait…but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln

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

3. “All the so-called ‘secrets of success’ will not work unless you do.” – Jaymin Shah

4. “If it comes easy, it will go fast.” – Andrena Sawyer

5. “Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” – William James

6. “Take a leap of faith on your dreams, not for me and not for the society, just for yourself.” – Vinay Garg

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

8. “Trouble cannot be avoided, you either go looking for it or it will come looking for you.” – Constance Friday

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

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

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11. “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

12. “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

13. “We live in the land of opportunities. People come from all over the world to hustle and work their way up to places that they could only imagine or dream of.” – Farshad Asl

14. “If a man is called a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

15. “Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.” – Edward H. Harriman

16. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” – Stephen King

17. “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

18. “Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda

19. “No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become “Successful.”― Jaymin Shah

20. “You’re either changing your life or you’re not. No waiting for this or that or better weather or other hurdles. Hurdles are the change.” – Terri Guillemets

Powerful Hustle Quotes About Doing Your Best

21. “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

22. “WATCH out for your surroundings, UPGRADE your mindset and keep FOCUS.” – Surgeo Bell
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23. “Quit hating and trying to be like the next man. Get on your own grind and be better than the next man, whether you gotta hustle, work a job or whatever. Just do you.” – Surgeo Bell

24. “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

25. “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

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

27. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

35. “I love people, and the hustle.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

36. “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

37. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” – Colin Powell

38. “Hard work never killed a man.” – Scottish proverb

39. “Without commitment you cannot have depth in anything.” – Neil Strauss

40. “I’ve always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.” – Sumner Redstone

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

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

43. “The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.” – Deepika Padukone

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

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

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

47. “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

48. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

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

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

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51. “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” – Audre Lorde

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

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

54. “My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling.” – Young Jeezy

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

56. “All wealth is the product of labor.” – John Locke

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

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

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

60. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn

Hustle quotes that will challenge you to be the best version of yourself

61. “Each day wake up and ask yourself what will make you feel most alive that day.”― Jaymin Shah

62. “You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.” – Philippos

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

64. “Sometimes you face difficulties not because you’re doing something wrong, but because you’re doing something right.” – Joel Osteen

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

66. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

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

68. “Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” – Arnold Palmer

69. “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” – Bruce Feirstein
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70. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined!”- Thoreau

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

72. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder

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

74. “A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.” – Henry Kravis

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

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76. “I’m a firm believer in the hustle game.” – Eric Snow

77. “I don’t want to spend all the money I’ve made and then have to hustle fight to fight.” – Brian Ortega

78. “I still have to hustle to get jobs, audition and put myself out there.” – Ayda Field

79. “For a long time, I’ve had to hustle. If a film role is obviously great, then it’s been difficult for me to get a look-in.” – Rufus Sewell

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

81. “Music is my hustle.” – Pitbull

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

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

84. “Never let anyone outwork you or out-hustle you. Ever.” – Rick Pitino

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

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

87. “In New York, ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with the hustle to survive.” – Joe Gebbia

88. “I don’t have any formula. I just work with my heart, putting in a lot of hard work.” – Ranbir Kapoor

89. “There’s a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.” – Fetty Wap

90. “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

91. “Success in general is a well-balanced blend of luck, DNA, confidence, and hustle.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

92. “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

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

94. “Hustle like you broke and keep that passion.” – Jay Rock

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

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96. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

104. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” ― Jim Rohn

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

106. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

107. “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

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

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

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

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

112. “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

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

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

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

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

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

118. “Sometimes, you’ve got to work a little, so you can ball a lot.” – Tom Haverford

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

120. “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

121. “Don’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.” – Bill Murray

122. “Don’t stay in bed unless you can make money in bed.” – George Burns

Short hustle quotes to get your head in the game

123. “Hustle hard or eat shit.” — Anonymous

124. “Quit talking, start doing.” — Walt Disney

125. “Do better than good enough.” — Drake

126. “It’s hard work, not luck.” — Gary Vaynerchuk

127. “Empires aren’t built in a day.” — Anonymous

128. “Remember why you started.” — Ralph Marston

129. “Let your hustle be louder than your mouth.” — Anonymous

130. “The road to success is always under construction.” — Lily Tomlin

131. “Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” — Oprah Winfrey

132. “Leave the distracted masses to join the focused few.” — Cal Newport

Hustle quotes to keep you going after your dream

133. “Your dreams are free but the hustle is sold separately.” – Vic Stah Milien

134. “If you have financial responsibilities, then hustle for your dreams after your 9 to 6 job.” – Anuj Jasani

135. “Don’t give up on your goal for the little bit of comfort. Grow. Jump. Hustle.” – Sarvesh Jain

136. “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

137. “Hustle is essential for sensational success” – Anuj Jasani

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

139. “If you have dreams then wake up early, put on your boots, and start your hustle.” – Avijeet Das

140. “People who are going to be successful know it’s gonna happen. And those people tend to hustle until it does happen.” – Retta

141. “Hustle. Grind. Integrity.” – Stephanie Lahart

142. “HUSTLE, like no one is awake.

Day or night. Sunrise—sunset.

Hustle quietly,

when the lights are on and when

the lights are off.” – Jill Telford

Hustle quotes about what it looks and feels like to hustle

143. “Every day’s a hustle.” — Richard Linklater

144. “In this business, you gotta hustle.” — Tiny Tim

145. “Good things happen to those who hustle.” — Chuck Noll

146. “I grind. I hustle. I don’t have time to get no haircut.” — Baron Davis

147. “I think the hustle is just in my blood – always hungry, never satisfied.” — Eva Marie

148. “My key to surviving and winning is hustle. I think once you lose your hustle, you lost everything.” — Yo Gotti

149. “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

150. “Entrepreneurism is simply taking nothing, applying talent, brains, financial creativity and hustle, and turning that into something.” — Brock Pierce

151. “Hustle is simple – it’s doing the work. A lot of people like to talk about it, a lot of people have ideas, but it’s difficult to actually do the work.” — Troy Carter

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

Hustle quotes to drive you to succeed

153. “Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.” — Drake

154. “Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” — Desmond Tutu

155. “Be who you needed when you were younger.” — Ayesha Siddiqi

156. “Nothing changes if nothing changes.” — Courtney C. Stevens

157. “Legacy is greater than currency.” — Gary Vaynerchuk

158. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Kurt Cobain

159. “Tough times don’t last, but tough people do.” — Robert H. Schuller

160. “There’s no elevator to success.” — Zig Ziglar

161. “It won’t be easy, it’ll be worth it.” — Cas McCullough

162. “The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.” — Herbert V. Prochnow

Short hustle quotes

163. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

164. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

165. “Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” – Oprah Winfrey

166. “If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters.” – Chris Guillebeau

167. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden

168. “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

169. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

170. “We do today what they won’t so tomorrow we can accomplish what they can’t.” – Dwayne Johnson

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

172. “I’m from where your hustle determines your salary.” – Rick Ross

Hustle quotes that will motivate you to grind it out

173. “You’ve gotta learn to love the grind. Because life is the grind.” – John Calipari

174. “The world is yours and everything in it. It’s out there. Get on your grind and get it.” – Young Jeezy

175. “You can either complain about it or grind. I choose to grind.” – Kyle Vidrine

176. “Talk less, grind more.” – Atlas Rowe

177. “When you have time to shine, you have time to grind.” – Ahemad R Kazi

178. “The grind never ends.” – Danny Amendola

179. “What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That’s the secret of my life.” – Guy Kawasaki

180. “Maybe the cure for any burnout is to work harder.” – Phil Knight

181. “If you can’t grind for your dreams, you don’t deserve fruit.” – Anuj Jasani

182. “People just see the shine. They don’t see the grind.” – Kodak Black

What do you think about these hustle quotes?

Do you feel motivated yet?

Inspired?

Revved up?

Hustling isn’t easy. It’s going to ask you to give up the comforts you’re used to.

Maybe you’ll need to stay up late most nights.

Perhaps you’ll spend this summer knocking on doors, studying in your room, or sweating at the gym.

But don’t give up!

Keep on hustling until your dream is realized.

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