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It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Berkeley, CA (1911)
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be⁠—in baseball and in life.
Pete Rose1941–2024
- Baseball
Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:
Every success depends upon focusing the heart.
Rumi1207–1273Masnavi, Book III, 2302-5 (tr. Helminski, 1996)
- Success
The Republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg1878–1967“Washington Monument by Night” in Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922)
- America
I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.
Carl Sandburg1878–1967Incidentals (1904)
I’ve always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there’s only a slightest chance.
Michael Schumacherborn 1969“Schumacher applauds ‘super-performance’”, Reuters (22 October 2007)
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXI: On the supreme good, Line 2
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
I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
And falls on th’ other
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act I, Scene VII, spoken by MacbethIn context
- Power
To business that we love we rise betime
And go to’t with delight.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act IV, Scene IV, spoken by AntonyIn context
- Work
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Measure for Measure (c. 1604), Act I, Scene IV, spoken by LucioIn context
- Fear
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1893), Act II (Vivie)
Imagine what you desire. Will what you imagine. Create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
Nothing contributes so much to tranquillise the mind as a steady purpose,⁠—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Letter IIn context
What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Letter IIIIn context
- Courage