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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin Powell1937–2021
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Colin Powell1937–2021The Powell Principles (2003)
Have a vision. Be demanding.
Colin Powell1937–2021
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
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
JPJohn Powell1645–1713The Secret of Staying in Love (1990), p. 85.
- Failure
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)
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
George D. Prentice1802–1870
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand1905–1982
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand1905–1982The Ayn Rand Letter (1971–1976)
- Motivation & Goals
- Work
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004
- Business
- Government
We believed then and now there are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Ronald Reagan’s Second Inaugural Address (1985)
- Freedom
- Motivation & Goals
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
It’s bad policy to speculate on what you’ll do if a plan fails, when you’re trying to make a plan work.
Condoleezza Riceborn 1954Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, January 11, 2007.
- Failure
Everyone’s like, ‘overnight sensation.’ It’s not overnight. It’s years of hard work.
Margot Robbieborn 1990Chris Lee, “Margot Robbie’s careful ‘overnight sensation’ plan”, Los Angeles Times (11 January 2014)
- Work