"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
(Vince Lombardi)

"The way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you." (Jean de La Bruyère, French author)

"There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."
(Anonymous)

"There is no reward so sweet as that which is hard earnt."
(Michael Field-Dodgson)

"There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself."
(Andrew Carnegie)

"To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate."
(Michael Jordan)

"To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustains life, not the top. But of course, without the top, you can't have any sides."
(Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."
(Albert Einstein)

"What is once well done is done forever."
(Henry David Thoreau)