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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller1839–1937
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers1879–1935
- Motivation & Goals
We don’t want to tell our dreams. We want to show them.
Cristiano Ronaldoborn 1985Twitter post (8 February 2012)
- Motivation & Goals
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
- Motivation & Goals
Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
- Motivation & Goals
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
- Motivation & Goals
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962You Learn by Living (1960), p. 29–30
- Motivation & Goals
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
- Motivation & Goals
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Speech at the People’s Forum in Troy, New York (March 3, 1912)
- Business
- Economics
We shall strive for perfection. We shall not achieve it immediately — but we still shall strive.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Fourth inaugural address (1945)
- Motivation & Goals
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919The Strenuous Life (1899)
Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913), Appendix A
- Business
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919The Strenuous Life (1899)