One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade.
Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Success is dependent on effort.
Success comes before work only in the dictionary.
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock, and assumes 10 different positions in a day.
A good horse should be seldom spurred.
All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.
Give the labourer his wage before his perspiration be dry.
I want a house that has gotten over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
If you want a work well done, select a busy man: the other kind has no time.
