Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. -- H. Jackson Browne

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.-- Dale Carnegie

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. -- Dale Carnegie

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. -- Dale Carnegie

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B. -- Fats Domino

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. -- Sam Ewig

Working hard overcomes a whole lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.-- Rear Admiral Marsha Evans

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. -- Thomas A. Edison

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.-- Madeleine L'Engle

My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.-- Jim Fox

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction. -- Anne Frank

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it.
Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want. -- French Proverb

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.-- Robert Frost

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.-- Indira Gandhi

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.-- Kahlil Gibran 

The harder I work, the luckier I get.-- Sam Goldwyn

Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win--if you don't you won't.-- Bruce Jenner

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.--Vince Lombardi 

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. -- Vince Lombardi

The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven.-- Og Mandino

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius. -- Anna Pavlova

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.-- Diana Rankin

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.-- Ralph Ransom

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others. -- Robert B. Reich

No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.-- Theodore Roosevelt

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.-- John Ruskin 

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.-- George Sand

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life. -- Charles M. Schwab

The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupaton.-- George Bernard Shaw

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.-- George Bernard Shaw 

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there. -- Gary Sinise

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth. -- Margaret Thatcher

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

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. -- Mark Twain