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Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what’s a heaven for?
Robert Browning1812–1889Andrea del Sarto (1855), Men and Women (1855), “Andrea del Sarto”, line 98.In context
- Motivation & Goals
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
John Milton1608–1674Paradise Lost (1667), i.262-263In context
- Motivation & Goals
- Power
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881), El Dorado.
- Motivation & Goals
Monks, a lay follower should not engage in five types of business. Which five? Business in weapons, business in human beings, business in meat, business in intoxicants, and business in poison.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BCAnguttara Nikaya (Numerical Discourses), 5.177: Vanijja Sutta, as translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (2001)
- Business
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Speech at the People’s Forum in Troy, New York (March 3, 1912)
- Business
- Economics
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France1844–1924Discours de réception, Séance De L’académie Française (introductory speech at a session of the French Academy), 24th December 1896, on Ferdinand de Lesseps’ work on the Suez Canal.
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
William Hazlitt1778–1830Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld’s Maxims (1823), No. 89
- Motivation & Goals
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
J. K. Rowlingborn 1965Harvard address (2008)
- Failure
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it.
Thomas Edison1847–1931Diary entry, as quoted in Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently : Lessons from Edison’s Mother (2007) by Scott Teel, p. 12
- Work
Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.
Sun Tzu544–496 BCThe Art of War, Chapter V · Forces, Paragraph 1
- Business
- Leadership
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlinborn 1939Contributions of Jane Wagner
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale1898–1993Positive Thinking Every Day : An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year (1993), “April 13”
There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.
Zig Ziglar1926–2012See You at the Top (2000)
- Motivation & Goals
The first mistake belonging to business is the going into it.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax1633–1695Moral Thoughts and Reflections
- Business
Men make it such a point of honour to be fit for business that they forget to examine whether business is fit for a man.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax1633–1695Moral Thoughts and Reflections
- Business