Ayn Rand: ''A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.''
Beverly Sills: ''I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.''
Bobby Knight: ''The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.''
Charles R. Swindoll: ''Life is 10 what happens to you and 90 how you react to it.''
Confucius: ''It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.''
Confucius: ''The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.''
Dale Carnegie: ''If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.''
Diane Sawyer: ''Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.''
Franklin D. Roosevelt: ''When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.''
George Herbert: ''Do not wait the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.''
Henry Drummond: ''The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.''
Hubert H. Humphrey: ''Never give in and never give up.''
Jessica Savitch: ''No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.''
Khalil Gibran: ''March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.''
Malala Yousafzai: ''It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.''
Nikos Kazantzakis: ''In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.''
Norman Vincent Peale: ''It's always too early to quit.''
Og Mandino: ''Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.''
Persius: ''He conquers who endures.''
Peter Marshall: ''Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.''
Ralph Marston: ''What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.''
Richard Rorty: ''There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.''
Sam Levenson: ''Don't watch the clock do what it does. Keep going.''
Shakti Gawain: ''You create your opportunities by asking for them.''
Suhaib Hussain: ''No days off.''
Theodore Roosevelt: ''Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.''
William Hazlitt: ''The more we do, the more we can do.''