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We shall strive for perfection. We shall not achieve it immediately — but we still shall strive.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Fourth inaugural address (1945)
You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Forerunner (1920)
The progressive world is necessarily divided into two classes — those who take the best of what there is and enjoy it — those who wish for something better and try to create it.
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Cassandra (1860)
- Change
Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Nelson Mandela on determination, From a letter to Makhaya Ntini on his 100th Cricket Test (17 December 2009)
- Success
Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam1931–2015Wings of Fire (1999), p. 90
- Success
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam1931–2015NDTV (27 July 2015 obituary citing his memorable quotes)
Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield1831–1881As quoted in E. E. Brown, The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield (1881), p. 437
Whoever you are, no matter what social position you have, rich or poor, always show great strength and determination, and always do everything with much love and deep faith in God. One day you will reach your goal.
Ayrton Senna1960–1994Interview, 1991
- Faith
My greatest challenge is not what’s happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their fucking perch. And you can print that.
Alex Fergusonborn 1941Said to The Guardian (September 2002)
- Sports
We’re not here just to take part; we’re here to take over.
Conor McGregorborn 1988“UFC Fight Night: Dublin” (July 2014), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC
- Success
When you start doing it for the perceptions of others, you’re never going to win. Your biggest believer in what you do should be you.
Kevin Hartborn 1979His reply when asked if there is a chance audience won’t accept him in something like the movie True Story during an interview with The New York Times (23 November 2021)
They wrote me off, I ain’t write back though.
GSGeno Smithborn 1990During first post-game interview after being named Seahawks’ starter (September 12, 2022).
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons on becoming Prime Minister (13 May 1940)
- Courage
- War & Peace
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963To the Moon (1962)
- Science
We believed then and now there are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Ronald Reagan’s Second Inaugural Address (1985)
- Freedom