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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller1880–1968Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia (8 July 1896)
- Motivation & Goals
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
- Motivation & Goals
Things don’t just happen, they are made to happen.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Speech given at the Arkansas State Fairground, Little Rock, United States of America (3 October 1963); quoted in John F. Kennedy in Quotations: A Topical Dictionary, with Sources (2013), McFarland, entry 1729
- Motivation & Goals
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963To the Moon (1962)
- Motivation & Goals
- Science
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968Day of Affirmation Address (1966)
- Failure
Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968Farewell statement, Warsaw, Poland, reported in The New York Times (2 July 1964)
- Motivation & Goals
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s, 1841
- Motivation & Goals
Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Soldiers Three, The Winners (L’Envoi: What Is the Moral?), Stanza 1 (1888).
If you can dream⁠—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think⁠—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936If— (1910)In context
- Character
- Failure
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
- Business
If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
- Business
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.
MKMichael Kordaborn 1933Success! (1977)
- Responsibility
To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
MKMichael Kordaborn 1933Success! (1977)
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
MKMichael Kordaborn 1933Success! (1977), p. 121
- Motivation & Goals
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
MKMichael Kordaborn 1933Success! (1977), p. 145
- Work