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To hell with more. I want better.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012Beyond 1984: The People Machines (1979)
- Motivation & Goals
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
Jane Goodall1934–2025“The Power of One”, TIME Magazine (26 August 2002)
- Motivation & Goals
Whoever hammers a lump of iron, first decides what he is going to make of it, a scythe, a sword, or an axe. Even so we ought to make up our minds what kind of virtue we want to forge or we labour in vain.
Anthony the Great251–357Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum), Antony 35; trans. Benedicta Ward (1975)
- Motivation & Goals
- Virtue
American industry is not free, as once it was free; American enterprise is not free; the man with only a little capital is finding it harder to get into the field, more and more impossible to compete with the big fellow.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924The New Freedom (1913), Section I: “The Old Order Changeth”, p. 15
- Business
- Economics
One man can make a difference and every man should try.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis1929–1994Written on a card for an exhibit which travelled around the US when the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston was first opening (1979), quoted in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989) edited by Suzy Platt
- Inspiration
- Motivation & Goals
If I cannot sway the heavens, I’ll wake the powers of hell!
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book VII, Line 312 (tr. Robert Fagles); spoken by Juno.
- Motivation & Goals
Now always be the best, my boy, the bravest,
and hold your head up high above the others.
Homer900–800 BCIliad, VI. 208 (tr. Robert Fagles); Glaucus recalling his father’s charge
- Courage
- Motivation & Goals
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
Anthony Trollope1815–1882Orley Farm (1862), Ch. 49
We must have patience and not lose heart, submitting to the will of God, and striving incessantly, as I have resolved to do, come what may.
William the Silent1533–1584Letter to his brother, Louis of Nassau, as quoted in William the Silent (1897) by Frederic Harrison, p. 93
- Faith
- Motivation & Goals
If you have an opportunity to accomplish something that will make things better for someone coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.
Roberto Clemente1934–1972Tris Speaker Award acceptance speech, Houston (29 January 1971), as quoted in The Sporting News (20 February 1971)
- Motivation & Goals
- Responsibility
Where ambition can be so happy as to cover its enterprizes, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of all human passions.
David Hume1711–1776The History of England (1754-62)
- Character
- Motivation & Goals
I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Schoolboy notebook entry (1816), as quoted in Georges Pellissier, The Literary Movement in France During the Nineteenth Century (1897)
- Motivation & Goals
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947The Alchemist (1988), p. 22; a variant of this has become attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen” — but no occurrence of this a statement has been located prior to in The Gift …
- Motivation & Goals
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
Alan Turing1912–1954Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950), p. 460.
- Motivation & Goals
The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
Jawaharlal Nehru1889–1964A Tryst With Destiny (14 August 1947)
- Motivation & Goals