Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.Theodore Roosevelt
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.Robert Frost
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.Cicero
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.Horace
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.Simone Weil