The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

- Jonas Salk

You beat 50 percent of the people in America by working hard.  You beat another 40 percent by being a person of honesty and integrity and standing for something.  The last 10 percent is a dogfight in the free enterprise system.

- Art Williams

People generally get whatever they expect out of life.  Expect the worst, and that’s what you’ll get.

- John C. Maxwell

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

- Eddie Cantor

Opportunities are the result of pluck, not luck.  The people who succeed seek out opportunity, and if they can’t find them, they create them.

- John C. Maxwell

Success is waking up in the morning, whoever you are, wherever you are, however old or young, and bounding out of bed because there is something out there that you love to do, that you believe in, that you’re good at, something that’s bigger than you are, and you can hardly wait to get at it again today.

- Whit Hobbs

I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.

- Stephen Leacock

People don’t work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they’ll succeed without ever making an effort.  Most people believe that they’ll wake up and find themselves rich.  Actually, they’ve got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

- Thomas Edison

If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.

- John C. Maxwell

Opportunities and motivation are connected.  Motivated people see opportunities, and opportunities are often what motivate people.

- John C. Maxwell