Hats off to the past; coats off to the future 
-Proverb 
  
Some men are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it 

  
I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more I have off it. 
-Stephen Leacock 
  
  
Blessed is he who has found his work,; let his ask not other blessedness. 
-Carlyle