Beyond talent lies all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but most of all, endurance.
-- James Baldwin

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness--simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.
--George Sand

Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and be with you.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause of fear. Perhaps the action that you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
-Norman Vincent Peale

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
-Norman Vincent Peale

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
-Norman Vincent Peale

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture. Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
-Norman Vincent Peale