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One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Ulysses (1842)In context
- Courage
- Motivation & Goals
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), p. 364In context
- Motivation & Goals
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989), Author unknown; attributed to Henry David Thoreau, but not found in his works.
- Motivation & Goals
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862
- Failure
Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862
- Failure
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Life Without Principle (1863), p. 485
- Business
- Work
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859
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
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlinborn 1939Contributions of Jane Wagner
All my life, I’ve always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlinborn 1939The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985), As “Chrissy”
- Comedy
- Motivation & Goals
If I had known what it would be like to have it all… I might have been willing to settle for less.
Lily Tomlinborn 1939The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985), As “Lyn”
- Comedy
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracyborn 1944
- Motivation & Goals
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
Anthony Trollope1815–1882Orley Farm (1862), Ch. 49
I do whine because I want to win and I’m not happy about not winning and I am a whiner and I keep whining and whining until I win.
Donald Trumpborn 1946Interview with Chris Cuomo, CNN (11 August 2015)