"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration." ~Thomas Edison
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Find something you love to do, and you'll never have to work a day in your life." ~Harvey Mackay
"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." ~Benjamin Franklin
“Every noble work is at first impossible.” ~Thomas Carlyle
“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” ~Henry Ford
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” ~Saint Augustine
“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.” ~Booker T. Washington
“Nothing will work unless you do.” ~Maya Angelou
“Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.” ~ Voltaire
“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ~Thomas A. Edison
"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work.: ~Stephen King
“There is no substitute for hard work.” ~Thomas A. Edison
"I learned the value of hard work by working hard." ~Margaret Mead
"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it." ~Mother Teresa
"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work." ~Oprah