"The harder you work, the luckier you get." McAlexander

"It's always too early to quit." Norman Vincent Peale

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs." Malcolm Forbes

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." William Feather

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." Calvin Coolidge

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they may lead." Lousia May Alcott

"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one." Charles Horton Cooley

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bird that cannot fly." Langston Hughes

"If you can imagine it, You can achieve it. If you can dream it, You can become it." William Arthur Ward

"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks." Herodotus

"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion." G.W.F. Hegel

"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things... I am tempted to think... There are no little things." Bruce Barton

"Writing has made me rich--not in money but in a couple hundred characters out there, whose pursuits and anguish and triumphs I've shared. I am unspeakably grateful at the life I have come to lead." Wright Morris

"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation." Graham Greene

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead & rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing." Benjamin Franklin

"That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write." Natalie Goldberg

"Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons." William Targ

"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." Linus Pauling

"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." Charles Du Bos

"Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past." H. F. Hedge

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all." Dale Carnegie

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." Kenny Rogers