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Willing is not enough; we must do. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Bruce Lee1940–1973
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain1835–1910
The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.
Vince Lombardi1913–1970
- Work
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
?UnattributedOften credited to Winston Churchill
- Courage
I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed.
Michael Jordanborn 1963
- Failure
If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
Mario Andrettiborn 1940
- Motivation & Goals
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
- Motivation & Goals
The heights by great men reached and kept, were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882The Ladder of St. Augustine, st. 10.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933Quote from a program at a Coolidge memorial service (1933); cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999). The passage did not originate with Coolidge, but evolved over several decades, appearing as early as 1881 in a youth guidance book
- Motivation & Goals
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford1863–1947
- Motivation & Goals
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope1882–1958Often credited to Bill Cosby
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford1863–1947
I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
- Motivation & Goals
The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933Speech to the Society of American Newspaper Editors (1925).
- America
- Business