67 Movie Quotes about Hard Work (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

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.

51 Let me tell you something, kid. Now, for a 45-minute fight, you gotta train hard for 45000 minutes. Forty-five thousand. That's 10 weeks. That's 10 hours a day. You listening? And you ain't even trained one.

Burgess Meredith as Mickey Goldmill in Rocky II

52 Step down off your high horse, mister. You don't get lard less'n you boil the hog.

John Wayne as Davy Crockett in The Alamo (1960)

53 An ounce of gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that went into the finding and the getting of it.

Walter Huston as Howard in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

54 So after all that hard work... it's time to start preparations for next Christmas.

Will Ferrell as Buddy The Elf in Elf (2003)

55 You know, in 20 or 30 years, with hard work, maybe you could have a place like this for yourself.

Eddie Murphy as Prince Akeem in Coming to America (1988)

56 It's a new start for all of us, but it's going to mean a lot of hard work, and it's going to mean sticking together for the common good,

James Cagney as The Oklahoma Kid in The Oklahoma Kid (1939)

57 It's just a small token of appreciation for all her hard work. It's a Rolex.

Bruce Willis as John McClane in Die Hard (1988)

58 Well, I ain't used to hard work neither. I always tried to avoid it.

Paul Newman as Lucas "Luke" Jackson in Cool Hand Luke

59 You're a successful self-made man.

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

60 It's not gonna be easy though, baby. It's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be hard work.

Max Julien as Goldie The Mack in The Mack (1973)