56 Movie Quotes about Hard Work (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: April 22, 2025

Memorable quotes about hard work, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Dad, I remember you coming home some night so overworked, your hands were still stirring. You couldn't stop them. -I remember that.

Jerry Seinfeld as Barry B. Benson in Bee Movie

2 From this second on, we do everything double time. Better yet, make that triple time. And we'll do it together to make sure it gets done right.

Gopher in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

3 Well, of course it won't be easy, but nothing worthwhile ever is. That is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

4 I've worked too hard for too long to get here and I am not going to jeopardize it for some garbage boy who got lucky. Got it?

Janeane Garofalo as Colette Tatou in Ratatouille

5 Happiness is seeing the benefits of good, hard work. Watching the things you've planted with your own hands springing up fresh and green. And then... harvesting them!

Rabbit in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

6 I'll tell you this, if I'm gonna change my life, it's not gonna come from some magic drink. Gotta come from a lot of hard work, and exercise and plenty of these.

Eddie Murphy as Sherman Klump in The Nutty Professor (1996)

7 And I got where I am with guts, compassion, elbow grease and something you're sadly lacking in, son.

Jackie Cooper as Perry White in Superman (1978)

8 We'll sweep this clear in half a year if you don't mind the work.

Quote from Alice in Wonderland (1951)

9 Getting rich is hard work, kid. Come on.

Darren McGavin as Mr. Parker in A Christmas Story (1983)

10 I've worked all my life for this. You can't talk me into giving up, no matter what you say.

Quote from Shaolin vs. Lama (1983)