| "No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best." Benjamin Carson |
| "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." John R. Wooden |
| "There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul." Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." Soren Kierkegaard |
| "A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind." Eugene Ionesco |
| "Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another." John Dewey |
| "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." Steve Jobs |
| "Opportunities don't happen, you create them." Chris Grosser |
| "Prepare yourself for success. You have to see it coming to get there." Destiny Booze |
| "With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable." Thomas Fowell Buxton |
| "If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing." Will Rogers |
| "Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success." Joyce Brothers |
| "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." Bruce Feirstein |
| "Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." Joshua J. Marine |
| "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." Thomas Jefferson |
| "Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance." Dr. Samuel Johnson |
| "If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success." John D. Rockefeller, Sr |
| "Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes." Benjamin Franklin |
| "Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." Louis Holtz |
| "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." Robert J. Collier |
| "Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good." Malcolm Gladwell |
| "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." Milton Berle |
| "Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal." Vince Lombardi |
| "Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference." Lou Holtz |
| "Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil." J. Paul Getty |
| "Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired." Robert Strauss |
| "When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important." Ellen DeGeneres |
| "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." Herman Melville |
| "The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge." Napoleon Hill |
| "Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success." Joyce Brothers |
