Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.

There is no substitute for hard work.

-- Thomas Edison

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

-- Thomas Edison

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

-- Pelé

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

-- Babe Ruth

One only sees what one already knows and understands.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you are earnest, wisdom emerges. When you are half-hearted, complaints emerge. When you are careless, excuses emerge.

-- Takeda Shingen