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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton1885–1945
It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance.
George S. Patton1885–1945
You’re never beaten until you admit it.
George S. Patton1885–1945
- Failure
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale1898–1993Positive Thinking Every Day : An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year (1993), “April 13”
By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.
Norman Vincent Peale1898–1993Stay Alive All Your Life (1957)
- Failure
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn1644–1718No Cross, No Crown (1682)
- Christianity
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990
There is a high goal, a mountain peak, a star that shines in the darkness, beckoning above the horizon. Its mere existence gives you hope⁠—and that is the meaning without which you cannot live.
Jordan Petersonborn 1962Beyond Order (2021), p. 133
- Hope
- Motivation & Goals
If you aim at nothing, you become plagued by everything.
Jordan Petersonborn 1962Beyond Order (2021), p. 184
- Motivation & Goals
You do not choose what interests you. It chooses you.
Jordan Petersonborn 1962Beyond Order (2021), p. 65
- Motivation & Goals
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Plato429–349 BC
“Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,”
The shade replied,⁠—
“If you seek for Eldorado!”
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849Eldorado (1849)In context
- Motivation & Goals
Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849Eldorado (1849)In context
- Motivation & Goals
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell1937–2021