"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine

"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."
Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)

"Your identity and your success go hand in hand. Many people sacrifice their identities by not doing what they really want to do. And that's why they're not successful."
Lila Swell

"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Past and Present, 1843

"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)