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All my life, I’ve always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlinborn 1939The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985), As “Chrissy”
- Comedy
- Motivation & Goals
If I had known what it would be like to have it all… I might have been willing to settle for less.
Lily Tomlinborn 1939The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985), As “Lyn”
- Comedy
It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you’re attempting can’t be done.
Terry Pratchett1948–2015Equal Rites (1987)
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.
Steve Jobs1955–2011On the success of Bill Gates and Microsoft, as quoted in The Wall Street Journal (Summer 1993)
- Money
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.
Steve Jobs1955–2011“Jobs: Iconoclast and salesman” by Brian Williams, at MSNBC (25 May 2006)
- Motivation & Goals
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
Henry Ford1863–1947My Life and Work (1922)
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Letter to a friend, quoted in The Life of Florence Nightingale Vol. II (1914) by Edward Tyas Cook, p. 406
- Motivation & Goals
I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve1952–2004Speech at the Democratic National Convention (26 August 1996)
- Hope
- Motivation & Goals
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919The New Nationalism (1910)
- Business
- Politics
The condition of all progress is experience. We go wrong a thousand times before we find the right path.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913)
- Experience
- Failure
If the will is fixed on the purpose it sets itself to accomplish, then circumstances will suggest the right course; but the schemer finds himself always tripped up by the unexpected.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950India’s Rebirth, 22 February 1908
- Motivation & Goals
The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Albert Camus1913–1960The Myth of Sisyphus
- Happiness
- Motivation & Goals
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933The Press Under a Free Government (1925)
- America
- Business
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
Enoch Powell1912–1998Enoch Powell, Joseph Chamberlain (1977), p. 151
- Failure
- Politics