You never know what motivates you.

- Cicely Tyson

Deserve your dream.

- Octavio Paz

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

- Rose Kennedy

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

- Jessica Savitch

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

- Carl Sandburg

If you think you can do it, you can.

- John Burroughs

The more things you do, the more you can do.

- Lucille Ball

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

- Bobby Knight

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

- Dean Koontz

Don't fight the problem, decide it.

- George C. Marshall

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

- Philip Emeagwali

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

- John D. Rockefeller

Know or listen to those who know.

- Baltasar Gracian

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

- James Rollins

After a storm comes a calm.

- Matthew Henry

He conquers who endures.

- Persius

They can conquer who believe they can.

- Virgil

You have to make it happen.

- Denis Diderot

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

- Rupert Murdoch