O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
Abu Bakr

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers

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

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter Drucker

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
Ann Richards

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Elbert Hubbard

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost

The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Samuel Goldwyn

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vince Lombardi

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Arnold J. Toynbee

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Ronald Reagan

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
J. Paul Getty

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
Richard Nelson Bolles

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford

There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas A. Edison

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Pearl S. Buck

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey