We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. — Benjamin Franklin

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. — Thomas Carlyle
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. — Carl Sandburg
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance? — Ronald Reagan
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. — Benjamin Franklin
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. — Benjamin Franklin
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. — Benjamin Franklin