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We’re not here just to take part; we’re here to take over.
Conor McGregorborn 1988“UFC Fight Night: Dublin” (July 2014), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC
- Motivation & Goals
I don’t take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
Kareena Kapoorborn 1980“I am already married: Kareena Kapoor”, Hindustan Times (13 October 2012).
- Failure
When you start doing it for the perceptions of others, you’re never going to win. Your biggest believer in what you do should be you.
Kevin Hartborn 1979His reply when asked if there is a chance audience won’t accept him in something like the movie True Story during an interview with The New York Times (23 November 2021)
- Motivation & Goals
They wrote me off, I ain’t write back though.
GSGeno Smithborn 1990During first post-game interview after being named Seahawks’ starter (September 12, 2022).
- Motivation & Goals
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons on becoming Prime Minister (13 May 1940)
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963To the Moon (1962)
- Motivation & Goals
- Science
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
America demands and deserves big things from us – and nothing big ever came from being small.
Bill Clintonborn 1946Bill Clinton’s Second Inaugural Address (1997)
- America
- Motivation & Goals
Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IIIIn context
- Comedy
Nothing contributes so much to tranquillise the mind as a steady purpose,⁠—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Letter IIn context
- Motivation & Goals
What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Letter IIIIn context
- Courage
- Motivation & Goals
I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Chapter VIn context
- Emotion
- Failure
We learn from failure, not from success!
Bram Stoker1847–1912Dracula (1897), Chapter XIn context
- Failure
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter IIIIn context
- Failure
- Wisdom
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIn context
- Business
- Charity