Desire is key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal... a commitment to excellence... that will help you reach the success you seek.

Mario Andretti, racing champion

 

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

Carl Owen Hubbell, baseball player

 

Inside the ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

Muhammad Ali, boxing champion

 

what this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor

 

If there is such a thing as luck, then I must be the most unlucky fellow in the world. I've never once made a lucky strike in all my life. When I get after something that I need, and then comes number 100, and that...at the very last...turns out to be just what I had been looking for.

Thomas Edison, inventor

 

What is defeat? Nothing but education, a possible first step to something better.

Wendell Phillips, American social reformer.

The past cannot be changed. the future is yet in your power.

Hugh White, former U.S. senator