Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

The greatest blessings is to get rid of the sinful nature through God's grace.

My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.

One who fears failure limits his activities.

I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.

To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

Start three bars before something.

So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists.

The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.

I sure don't think of myself as a fat person, just someone who carries extra weight. I've never seen anyone on the DL with pulled fat.