Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

William Arthur Ward

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

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

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

Carlyle

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

Theodore Roosevelt

I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don’t do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

Micheal Jordan

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary

Vidal Sassoon