A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. -- Charles M. Schwab

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. -- Henry Hazlitt

All effort is in the last analysis sustained by the faith that it is worth making. -- Ordway Tead

Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day. -- Booker T. Washington

Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, 'Fool,' said my Muse to me, 'look in thy heart and write'. -- Sir Philip Sydney

Chance favors those in motion. -- James H. Austin

Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything. -- Scott Reed

Competition is a by-- product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. -- Ayn Rand, The Moratorium on Brains

Deliye her gun bayram! ... everyday is a holiday for the crazy person... -- Turkish saying

Don't dream it, BE it! -- Tim Curry

Don't let the work ethic take away your life ethic. -- unknown

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them. -- Madame C. J. Walker

Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. -- Jacqueline Brisken

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. -- Napoleon Hill

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. -- Benjamin Disraeli

Everyday ask yourself the question, 'Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict?' -- Gerald Jampolsky

First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do. -- Epictetus

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most often makes for success. -- Dale Carnegie

Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it. -- Joseph Campbell

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. -- Rita Mae Brown

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. -- Samuel Johnson, 'Rasselas'

He's no failure. He's not dead yet. -- W. L. George

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel. -- Gloria Naylor

I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.-- Helen Keller

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you. -- Harrison Ford

I want to do it because I want to do it. -- Amelia Earhart

If God has given you a talent, it is a sin to waste it. -- Sister Francis Therese, St. Benedict Joseph Labre Catholic School, Queens, New York

If you want to do something, do it! -- Plautus

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. -- Somerset Maugham

It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. -- Joanna Field

Man is what he believes. -- Anton Chekhov

Never let yesterday use up today. -- Richard H. Nelson

No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living. -- Marie Beynon Ray

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. -- Ann Landers

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. -- Denis Diderot

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. -- Helen Keller

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. -- Samuel Johnson

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. -- Sir Archibald McIndoe

Someone who loves what they're doing is very different from someone who wants you to love them for what they're doing. -- anon

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.-- Charles O. Finley

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. -- Erica Jong

The days you work are the best days. -- Georgia O'Keefe

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you. -- Elmer Davis

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

The great thing, and the hard thing, is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery. -- Janet Erskine Stuart

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. -- Richard Bach

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. -- Theodore Roosevelt

The secret of success is constancy of purpose. -- Benjamin Disraeli

The work will teach you how to do it. -- Estonian proverb

There are two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle -- Albert Einstein

There is just one life for each of us: our own. -- Euripides

There is no substitute for hard work. -- Thomas Edison

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. -- Doris Lessing

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline. -- Jane E. Brody

Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage -- Claude M. Bristol

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released. -- Jean Houston

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. -- John F. Kennedy

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. -- Katherine Mansfield

Whatever you do, don't give up. Because all you can do once you've given up is bitch. -- Molly Ivins

When I give, I give myself -- Walt Whitman

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. -- Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton

You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then lay out your plans to get there, and then you just do it. It's pretty straightforward. -- Nancy Ditz