135-plus Amazing Side Hustle Quotes to Get You Into The Zone

Optimisim, pessimism, f*** that - we're going to make it happen. As God is my witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst that can happen is that you become memorable.

Lasting change is different than a goal. You don’t always get your goals, but you always get your standards.

If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you.

No matter how much money you have, you can't buy more time.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Each day wake up and ask yourself what will make you feel most alive that day.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

You can't have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic.

Things may come to those who wait... but only the things left by those who hustle.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.

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.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of, 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this', and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.

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.

I don't count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they're the only ones that count.

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

You gotta run more than your mouth to escape the treadmill of mediocrity. A true hustler jogs during the day, and sleepwalks at night.

Hustle untill you no longer need to introduce yourself.

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.

If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to thing they can change the world, are the ones that do.

Fuck You, pay me.

If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know and start charging for it.

The longer you're not taking action the more money you're losing.

Never depend on single income. Make investments to create a second source.

The trouble for most people is they don't decide to get wealthy, they just dream about it.

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.

I'd rather hustle 24/7 than slave away 9-to-5.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110% all the time.

I've got a dream that's worth more than my sleep.

The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don't give up.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.

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.

Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to site at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years.

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.

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

The hustle brings the dollar. The experience brings the knowledge. The persistens brings success.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Hustle beats talent when talent doesn't hustle.

Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, others make it happen.

The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The next best thing is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

When I was young, I observed that 9 out of 10 things I did were failures. So I did 10 times more work.

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.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separetes the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

I want the peace in knowing that it wasn't for lack of hustling that I missed a target for my dream. I want to know that the one thing in my control was under control.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it!

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters.

Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't.

I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Hustle in silence and let your success make the noise.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

A successful man is the one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

The best revenge is massive success.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

Some succeed because they are DESTINED TO, but most succeed because they are determined to.

Don't be worried about the next man. Make sure your business tight.

Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary.

Don't stay in bed unless you can make money in bed.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improvign your other innovations.

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business.

Excellence comes when you ask of yourself more than anyone else does.

I have never been afraid of dying, I have only been afraid of not living fully.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

Being good is making it look easy, but getting good is never easy.

As a winner, learn not to let negative comments affect you. Just treat it as firewood that feeds your fire. Soon that fire will be so big an dso bright that those who criticized you will smell the smoke, even if they happen to be on the other side of the world.

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.

Trouble cannot be avoided, you either go looking for it or it will come looking for you.

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.

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.'

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.

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. -

Eat. Sleep. Hustle. Repeat.

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

Hustle until your haters ask if you're hiring.

Do. Or do not. There is no try.

Never accept yourself as a finished product. Be a finished product when you die. As long as you have breath in your lungs, expand yourself.

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

Don't just name yourself a hustler. Let people say it!

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have every lived.

The first step is: You have to say that you can.

Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

I want the world to be better because I was here.

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.

Life is lived on the edge of ability.

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

As you think, so shall you become.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions.

The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is, I am not afraid to die on a treadmill. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me. But if we get on the treadmill together, there’s two things. You are getting off first. Or I am going to die. It’s that simple.

Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.

If you're absent during my struggle don't expect to be present during my success.

If you don't fight for what you want, don't cry for what you lost.

You don't set out to build a wall. You don't say 'I'm going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that's ever been built.' You don't start there. You say, 'I'm going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.' You do that every single day. And soon you have a wall.

Greatness exists in all of us.

If you will work like no one else, later you can live like no one else.

You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.

You must walk to the beat of a different drummer. The same beat that the wealthy hear. If the beat sounds normal, evacuate the dance floor immediately! The goal is to not be normal, because as my radio listeners know, normal is broke.

There's two kinds of people in this world. There's hammers and nails... You decide what to be.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”

Leaders spend 5% of their time on the problem & 95% of their time on the solution. Get over it & crush it!”

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.”

If you don’t set a baseline standard for what you’ll accept in life, you’ll find it’s easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that’s far below what you deserve.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it’s the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

When you wanna succeed as bad as you wanna breathe, that's when you'll be successful.

I use pain to push me to greatness.

Winners focus on winning. Losers focus on winners.

No alarm clock needed, my passion wakes me.

Fall in love with the process and the results will come.

You wanna shine like a diamond, you gotta get cut like a diamond.

You ain’t average! But you know what? You’re playing small because it’s easier to be average.

These cats done forgot what work is. They don't know who we be; looking - but they don't know who they see.

Don't cry to quit! Cry to keep going! You're already in pain, you're already hurting. Get a reward from it.