67 Movie Quotes about Hard Work (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

Updated: Apr 8, 2026

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

41 What do you believe in now? -Health, hard work, rare roast beef and good scripts.

Jack Palance as Charlie Castle in The Big Knife (1955)

42 Look at my swollen hands. The joints from walkin' and carryin' meat in and out of freezers. It plays hell on the joints.

Burt Young as Paulie Pennino in Rocky (1976)

43 Maybe you oughta see a doctor. What do you think? -I don't need a doctor. I need a different job.

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa; Burt Young as Paulie Pennino in Rocky (1976)

44 One day, a rich real-estate man in my village hired me to build a wall. I spent weeks trying to find bricks the right shape and kind of colour he wanted. I fitted them into place one by one, as if they were jewels.

Stan Laurel as Stan in Utopia (1951)

45 As I drank, I thought to myself, it's such a pity that my father isn't alive to be able to see for himself all his dreams come true. The dreams he worked so hard for. His son, a famous man. Married to a beautiful and wealthy woman.

Kirk Douglas as Walter O'Neil in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

46 Pretty fair prize, I'd say. -Yes, and you could win it, boy, if you'd knuckle down to your training.

Rickie Sorensen as Arthur in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

47 If you want to rise, Sextus, do the difficult.

Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur (1959)

48 He started out as a bricklayer. Now he owns his own construction company.

Geraldine Fitzgerald as Mrs. Kathleen Monahan in Easy Money (1983)

49 This is the fruit of our hard work. The belief in the entrepreneurial spirit. The new American Dream.

Wesley Snipes as Nino Brown in New Jack City

50 Ain't it about time to rest? -No, it ain't. We got to push until he drops.

Lee Marvin as Sergeant Edgar Millen; Ed Lauter as Hazel in Death Hunt