Begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Gordon Hinckley, a famous religious leader

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The heights by great men reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.

from the poem: The Ladder of St. Augustine, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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 Ewing

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

Author Unknown

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.

David Bly

Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.

Bill Gates

It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.

Sidney Madwed.

Know thy work and do it, and work at it like a Hercules. One monster there is in the world—an idle man.

Carlyle