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It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.
George C. Marshall1880–1959Address at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut (June 1941)
- Motivation & Goals
- War & Peace
I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into.
Warren Buffettborn 1930To Barack Obama, as quoted in The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (2006), Ch. 5
- Luck
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to “jump at de sun.” We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Zora Neale Hurston1891–1960Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch.2: My Folks, p. 13
- Family
- Motivation & Goals
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
Dag Hammarskjöld1905–1961Vägmärken · Markings (1963), 1925–1930
- Advice
- Motivation & Goals
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
George Sorosborn 1930Soros on Soros (1995)
- Failure
If I abandon this project I would be a man without dreams and I don’t want to live like that: I live my life or I end my life with this project.
Werner Herzogborn 1942Herzog on Herzog (2002), Said while making Fitzcarraldo
- Motivation & Goals
- Movies
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
You cannot judge a man’s life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole.
William Jennings Bryan1860–1925“The Law and the Gospel” (1896)
A man has to have goals — for a day, for a lifetime — and that was mine, to have people say, “There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.”
Ted Williams1918–2002My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life (1970), p. 7
- Baseball
- Motivation & Goals
We’re gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make “me too” products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it’s always the next dream.
Steve Jobs1955–2011Interview about the release of the Macintosh (24 January 1984)—(online video)
- Business
- Risk
Historically, the errors committed by a truly revolutionary movement are infinitely more fruitful than the infallibility of the cleverest Central Committee.
Rosa Luxemburg1871–1919Leninism or Marxism? (1904)
- Failure
- Politics
When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield1888–1923Journal entry (October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
- Failure
- Laughter
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
MKMichael Kordaborn 1933Success! (1977), p. 145
- Work
What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three, Chapter XIX.
- Democracy
- Motivation & Goals
If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough — you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal. In other words, you need to be pragmatic.
Richard Stallmanborn 1953Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism (1998)
- Motivation & Goals