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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide ‘ll turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe1811–1896Oldtown Folks (1869), Ch. 39
- Hope
- Motivation & Goals
I operate from a place of delusion-that’s what the Fame is all about… I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be⁠—and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.
Lady Gagaborn 1986“The Rise of Lady Gaga” by Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone (11 June 2009), pp. 57-61
- Motivation & Goals
- Truth & Lies
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
The Force is within you. Force yourself.
Harrison Fordborn 1942Barbara Walters interview (March 1997)
- Comedy
- Motivation & Goals
I think that if I am smart in business, it’s just that I’m smart about who I am. I know what I can, can’t, will and won’t do, and if I have to be strict about that, I will.
Dolly Parton1946–2026Interview by Jancee Dunn, “Dolly Parton: At 57, the Country Legend Still Brims With Vitality”, Rolling Stone (30 October 2003)
- Business
- Character
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.
Queen Victoria1819–1901Said to Arthur Balfour at Windsor during “Black Week” (December 1899), as recorded in Lady Gwendolen Cecil, Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury, vol. 3 (1931)
- Failure
- War & Peace
We don’t want to tell our dreams. We want to show them.
Cristiano Ronaldoborn 1985Twitter post (8 February 2012)
- Motivation & Goals
So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.
Jim Carreyborn 19622014 Maharishi University graduation ceremony
- Fear
- Motivation & Goals
It is better to buy than compete.
Mark Zuckerbergborn 1984Email (June 2008), as quoted in the FTC antitrust complaint against Facebook (December 2020)
- Business
I’ve always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there’s only a slightest chance.
Michael Schumacherborn 1969“Schumacher applauds ‘super-performance’”, Reuters (22 October 2007)
- Motivation & Goals
When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don’t consider the bloody ROI.
Tim Cookborn 1960Apple shareholder meeting (28 February 2014), as reported by The Mac Observer
- Business
I don’t think business should only deal in commercial things. Business, to me, is nothing more than a collection of people. If people have values, then companies should.
Tim Cookborn 1960CNBC: “Apple’s Tim Cook shares a rule that leaders should live by” (26 June 2018)
- Business
- Morality
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
Sometimes you need to feel the pain and sting of defeat to activate the real passion and purpose that God predestined inside of you.
Chadwick Boseman1976–2020Howard University Commencement Speech (2018)
- Failure
- Motivation & Goals
Sometimes you need to get knocked down before you can really figure out what your fight is and how you need to fight it.
Chadwick Boseman1976–2020Howard University Commencement Speech (2018)
- Failure
- Motivation & Goals