“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.”
Colleen C. Barrett

“The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society — more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”
Frank Lloyd Wright

“People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.”
Frederick Douglass

“If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.”
Lane Kirkland

“Gardening requires lots of water — most of it in the form of perspiration.”
Lou Erickson

“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
Lena Horne

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”
Pearl S. Buck

“I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”
Vince Lombardi

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
Winston Churchill

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
Oscar Wilde

“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein