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The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Jimmy Johnsonborn 1943
Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962You Learn by Living (1960), p. 29–30
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527
We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but sail we must and not drift nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858).
All our dreams can come true⁠—if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney1901–1966How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life (2004)
The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
BMBenjamin Mays
Don’t look back; they may be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige1906–1982
Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945Mein Kampf (1925)
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London1876–1916The Bulletin, San Francisco (2 December 1916), part 2, p. 1, ten days after his deathOften credited to Ian Fleming
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The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
Imagine what you desire. Will what you imagine. Create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London1876–1916