There is no way to success in our art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

- Albert Einstein

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work.

- Sarah Knowles Bolton

I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.
- Johann Sebastian Bach

If you would live your life with ease; do what you ought, not what you please.

- Anonymous

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

- John Calvin Coolidge

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

- Woody Allen

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

- Vince Lombardi

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

- Jimmy Carter

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

- Roger Bannister

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

- Lowell Thomas

Success usuallly comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

- Henry David Thoreau

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

- Robert Collier

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

- Eddie Cantor

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

- Anne Sullivan

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

- Thomas Edison

You must have the courage of your convictions.

- Julia Child