Weekend wisdom and inspiration

There is no substitute for hard work."
Thomas A. Edison
"If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
Michelangelo
"Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it."
Charles L. Allen
"People who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do."
Elbert Hubbard
"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."
Robert Frost
"The fellow who doesn't need a boss is often selected to be one."
Christopher Morley
"I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work."
Harry S. Truman
"If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life."
Confucius
"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
Bette Davis
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
Woody Allen
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
Thomas A. Edison
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
Elbert Hubbard
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
Thomas Jefferson
"I don't know anything of luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."
Lucille Ball
"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
James Matthew Barrie
“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”
Margaret Fuller
"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now."
P. T. Barnum
"Give yourself something to work toward--constantly."
Mary Kay Ash
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”
Abraham Maslow
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."
Richard Bach
“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there’s so little competition.”
Elbert Hubbard
"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
Samuel Butler
"Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money."
Irish Blessing
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.... Make big plans... aim high in hope and work."
Daniel Hudson Burnham
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."
Dale Carnegie