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Virgil70–19 BC

Virgil on motivation and goals

If I cannot sway the heavens, I’ll wake the powers of hell!

Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VII, Line 312 (tr. Robert Fagles); spoken by Juno.

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Love is lord of all, and is in all the same.
Georgics (29 BC), Book III, lines 242–244 (tr. John Dryden).
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Do not trust the horse, Trojans.
Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II
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Love conquers all; let us, too, yield to Love!
Eclogues (37 BC), Book X, line 69 (tr. Fairclough)
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
LLaozi580–501 BCOften credited to Confucius
Do, or do not. There is no ‘try.’
YYoda
Never give in⁠—never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech given at Harrow School, Harrow, England, October 29, 1941. Quoted in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, 2008, p. 23

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