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There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
- Failure
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), Act III
- Experience
- Failure
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
- Failure
- Motivation & Goals
Ambition, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Motivation & Goals
It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
Napoleon1769–1821Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
- Wisdom
To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter VI, § 6.20
- Motivation & Goals
- Virtue
The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882English Traits (1856)
- Motivation & Goals
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Life Without Principle (1863), p. 485
- Business
- Work
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
Abraham Maslow1908–1970“A Theory of Human Motivation”, in Psychological Review, vol. 50, no. 4 (1943), p. 382
- Motivation & Goals
It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Citizenship in a Republic (The Man in the Arena) (1910)
- Money
I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
George W. Bushborn 1946Interview with the Associated Press (18 January 2001)
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936What’s Wrong With The World (1910)
- Motivation & Goals
Ambition is the death of thought.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Culture and Value (1980), p. 77e
- Motivation & Goals
- Thinking
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.
Helen Keller1880–1968Optimism (1903)
- Hope
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon1737–1794The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776–1788), Chap. 68
- Luck