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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Jonathan Kozolborn 1936
Anything in life is possible and YOU make it happen!
Jack LaLanne1914–2011Jack LaLanne: Live young forever, Robert Kennedy Publishing, Mississauga 2009, P. 15
- Motivation & Goals
Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked.
Walter Savage Landor1775–1864Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829), “Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney”
- Money
- Motivation & Goals
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
LLaozi580–501 BCOften credited to Confucius
- Motivation & Goals
A journey of a thousand li starts with a single step.
LLaozi580–501 BCTao Te Ching, Ch. 64
- Motivation & Goals
Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
DLDoug Larson1926–2017
- Motivation & Goals
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.
T. E. Lawrence1888–1935Seven Pillars of Wisdom, introductory chapter (1922 Oxford text)
- Motivation & Goals
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Le Guin1929–2018The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 15 “To the Ice” (p. 220)
- Motivation & Goals
Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
Fran Lebowitzborn 1950
- Comedy
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; you put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; you put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
Bruce Lee1940–1973Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey (2000), reciting lines he wrote for his role in the TV series Longstreet (1971)
Willing is not enough; we must do. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Bruce Lee1940–1973
To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities.
Bruce Lee1940–1973
- Motivation & Goals
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
Gerald Stanley Lee1862–1944Often credited to T. S. Eliot
- Business
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
Gerald Stanley Lee1862–1944Crowds (1913), Book II, Chapter XV.
- Character
A man’s success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.
Gerald Stanley Lee1862–1944Crowds (1913), Book II, Chapter IX.
- Business