"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas A. Edison

Working and waiting for the day your ship'll come in.......

From the song '9 to 5' by Dolly Parton:

Workin' 9 to 5,
What a way to make a livin',
Barely gettin' by,
It's all takin' and no givin'.
They just use your mind
And they never give you credit,
It's enough to drive you crazy
If you let it,
9 to 5, for service and devotion,
You would think that I
Would deserve a fat promotion,
Want to move ahead
But the boss won't seem to let me,
I swear sometimes that man is out to get me.

They let you dream
Just to watch 'em shatter,
You're just a step
On the boss-man's ladder,
But you got dreams
He'll never take away.
You're in the same boat
With a lotta your friends,
Waitin' for the day your ship'll come in
'N' the tide's gonna turn,
And it's all gonna roll your way.

https://youtu.be/UbxUSsFXYo4

"People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often erroneously attributed to good luck."
- Grenville Kleiser

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson

Hard work, giving respect are examples of things we may not want to do but are things that are ought to do......

"Most of us don’t mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn’t interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not."
- Joseph B. Wirthlin

"Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication."
- Roger Staubach

"My opinion is effective communication comes from the desire to communicate. If a person wishes to get their point across, they will do what it takes to make it happen. If another person wants to understand what they are being told or shown, they will make the effort to comprehend."
- Christopher Morgan, Communication - Beyond words
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140331140225-15642393-communication-more-than-just-words

"You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life."
- Heather Schuck, The Working Mom Manifesto 

"Most people chase success at work, thinking that will make them happy. The truth is that happiness at work will make you successful."
- Alexander Kjerulf, Happy Hour is 9 to 5

"The path to happiness at work starts with a simple decision: You must want to be happy. If you don’t commit to being happy at work, you won’t be. You won’t make the choices that make you happy. You won’t take the actions needed to get there. You won’t change the things that need to change."
- Alexander Kjerulf, Happy Hour is 9 to 5

"There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What's most important is that you be awake for it."
- Janice Marturano

"There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life."
- Alain De Botton

"The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for."
- Habeeb Akande

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity."
- Calvin Coolidge

From the song 'Push It To The Limit' by Corbin Bleu:

Work, work it harder,
Got to take it farther,
No holding back,
You know we got to do it right now.
Be even better,
Work work together,
It's now or never,
Show 'em how we shine.

We got to
Push it, push it to the limit, limit
'Cause we're in it to win it, in it to win it.

http://youtu.be/A3-JA49q-0o

"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
- Bruce Lee