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None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950Savitri, Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
- Motivation & Goals
The great rule of life is to have no schemes but one unalterable purpose.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950India’s Rebirth, 22 February 1908
- Motivation & Goals
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815)In context
- Business
- Friendship
Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.
Roger Babson1875–1967
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bachborn 1936Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
- Motivation & Goals
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t.
Richard Bachborn 1936Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
- Life & Death
- Motivation & Goals
The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.
Richard Bachborn 1936Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
- Motivation & Goals
Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That’s the way that the license works.
Steve Ballmerborn 1956“Microsoft CEO takes launch break with the Sun-Times” (1 June 2001) Chicago Sun Times
- Business
- Computers
She said I was afraid of success, which may in fact be true, because I have a feeling that fulfilling my potential would really cut into my sittin’ around time.
Maria Bamfordborn 1970Comedy Central Presents Maria Bamford (2001)
- Comedy
One’s religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937The Twelve-Pound Look (1910)
- Religion
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887
Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year’s nest from which the bird has flown.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 567
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
Alexander Graham Bell1847–1922Interview in Orison Swett Marden, How They Succeeded (1901), ch. 2, “Bell Telephone Talk”
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
Saul Bellow1915–2005
- Motivation & Goals
A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
Wendell Berry1934–2026“The Total Economy”, in Citizenship Papers (2003)
- Business
- Money