Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Denis Waitley

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

Judy Collins

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

Jessica Savitch

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 

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

Philip Emeagwali 

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

Donna Brazile 

God always strives together with those who strive.

Aeschylus

To begin, begin.

William Wordsworth

Many are called but few get up.

Oliver Herford

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Flip Wilson

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

Orison Swett Marden

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

Eliza Dushku

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

Bill Cosby

When one must, one can.

Charlotte Whitton