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You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
John Lennon1940–1980
We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book I, Chapter 5, “We Have Cause to Be Uneasy”
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Failure
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Letter to Isham Reavis (5 November 1855)
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
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Speech in the House of Representatives (20 June 1848)
- Motivation & Goals
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
Individual commitment to a group effort⁠—that is what makes a team work a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi1913–1970
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
Vince Lombardi1913–1970
- Motivation & Goals
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi1913–1970
- Failure
If you can’t accept losing, you can’t win.
Vince Lombardi1913–1970
- Failure
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London1876–1916The Bulletin, San Francisco (2 December 1916), part 2, p. 1, ten days after his deathOften credited to Ian Fleming
- Life & Death
- Motivation & Goals
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London1876–1916
- 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.