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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Samuel Longfellow (ed.) Final Memorials (Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1887) Ch. 19: Table-Talk
Ah, nothing is too late
Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Morituri Salutamus (1875), St. 24.
- Age
- Motivation & Goals
The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, ’mid snow and ice,
A banner, with the strange device,
Excelsior!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Excelsior (1841)In context
- Motivation & Goals
Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,⁠—act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o’erhead!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882A Psalm of Life (1838)In context
- Motivation & Goals
- Time
We do not have to live the same mistakes over again if we can look at them, learn from them, and build upon them.
Audre Lorde1934–1992Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “Learning from the 60s”
- Experience
- Failure
Historically, the errors committed by a truly revolutionary movement are infinitely more fruitful than the infallibility of the cleverest Central Committee.
Rosa Luxemburg1871–1919Leninism or Marxism? (1904)
- Failure
- Politics
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527
- Motivation & Goals
Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527The Prince (1532), Chapter XXVIIn context
- Motivation & Goals
Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.
Madonnaborn 1958
- Motivation & Goals
For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013
Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Nelson Mandela on determination, From a letter to Makhaya Ntini on his 100th Cricket Test (17 December 2009)
- Motivation & Goals
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann1796–1859Address at Antioch College (1859)
- Life & Death
- Motivation & Goals
When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield1888–1923Journal entry (October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
- Failure
- Laughter
It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.
George C. Marshall1880–1959Address at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut (June 1941)
- Motivation & Goals
- War & Peace