1. “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
2. “Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs”. Woody Hayes
3. “I’ve always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up”. Beverly Sills
4. “There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!” Edgar Cayce
5. “After my ski jumping career finished, I went back to school to study law, and now I travel between five to 20 times a year doing after-dinner speaking, motivational talks, appearances, openings, TV and radio shows”. Eddie the Eagle
6. “I’ve always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You’re trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that’s about so you can represent it”. Edward Norton
7. “Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it”. Phillips Brooks
8. “I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear – it was not a fear of not being accepted – was a very violent fear of failure”. Emanuel Steward
9. “I’m going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I’ve learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life”. J. R. Martinez
10. “Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression”. Leonard Mlodinow
11. “We make the world we live in and shape our own environment”. Orison Swett Marden
12. “When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder”. Natalie Gulbis
13. “Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle”. Sasha Cohen
14. “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines”. Robert H. Schuller