Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
- Frank A. Clark

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff - Julius Caesar
- William Shakespeare

Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.
- Leon Uris

When you get hungry enough, you find yourself speaking Spanish pretty well.
- Josh Gibson

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
- Napoleon Bonaparte