George Halas

"Nothing will work unless you do."

Maya Angelou

"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 F. 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 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

"We work to become, not to acquire."

Elbert Hubbard

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"

Don Marquis

"When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results."

Calvin Coolidge

"When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home."

Betty Bender

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."

Henry J. Kaiser