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Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Pieces of Eight (1982)
- Failure
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Speech to Illinois legislature (January 1837)
- Business
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)
- Motivation & Goals
Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
Gillian Andersonborn 1968Excerpt from the foreword in Girl Boss: Running the Show Like the Big Chicks, by Stacy Kravetz (1999)
- Fear
- Motivation & Goals
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
Montesquieu1689–1755Pensées Diverses
They can because they think they can.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book V, Line 231 (tr. John Conington)
- Motivation & Goals
(Of Shakespeare) A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922) (243)
- Failure
- Genius
They never fail who die
In a great cause.
Lord Byron1788–1824Marino Faliero, Act II, Scene 2, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Failure
- Life & Death
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn1644–1718No Cross, No Crown (1682)
- Christianity
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration: this may be called perfect virtue.
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter VI
- Virtue
There is a high goal, a mountain peak, a star that shines in the darkness, beckoning above the horizon. Its mere existence gives you hope⁠—and that is the meaning without which you cannot live.
Jordan Petersonborn 1962Beyond Order (2021), p. 133
- Hope
- Motivation & Goals
I hope we shall… crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826to George Logan, 1816
- Business
- Government
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury – to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Albert Einstein1879–1955What I Believe (1930)
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann1796–1859Address at Antioch College (1859)
- Life & Death
- Motivation & Goals
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
Montesquieu1689–1755Pensées Diverses
- Wisdom