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Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Conduct of Life (1860)
- Motivation & Goals
I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary … Fame and success are very different things, anyway.
Enyaborn 1961The Times Magazine interview (2005)
- Fame
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner1897–1962Interview with Jean Stein, The Paris Review, No. 12 (Spring 1956)
- Failure
I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
William Faulkner1897–1962The Sound and the Fury (1929), June Second, 1910 (1 of 4)In context
- Failure
- Time
Most men become successful and famous, not through ambition, but through ability and character.
WFWilliam Feather1889–1981The Business of Life (1949)
- Character
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)
- Motivation & Goals
- Sports
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields1880–1946
The victor belongs to the spoils.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IVIn context
- Motivation & Goals
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes1919–1990
- Failure
By the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it.
Malcolm Forbes1919–1990
I once told you that I am not a saint, and I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.
Gerald Ford1913–2006Address to Congress (12 August 1974)
- Failure
The Force is within you. Force yourself.
Harrison Fordborn 1942Barbara Walters interview (March 1997)
- Comedy
- Motivation & Goals
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford1863–1947
- Motivation & Goals
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford1863–1947