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You don’t have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.
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God gave us two ends. One to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use; head you win, tail, you lose.
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Someone doing it often interrupts the person saying it cannot be done.
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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
They can because they think they can.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book V, Line 231 (tr. John Conington)
- Motivation & Goals
If I cannot sway the heavens, I’ll wake the powers of hell!
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book VII, Line 312 (tr. Robert Fagles); spoken by Juno.
- Motivation & Goals
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andy Warhol1928–1987The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), p. 92
- Art
- Business
I have learnt that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter II: Boyhood Days
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915
- Motivation & Goals
No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is long left without proper reward.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XVI: Europe
To keep a kind of republic of the spirit⁠—that’s what I call success.
Edith Wharton1862–1937The House of Mirth (1905), Book One, Chapter 6In context
- Freedom
I have tried hard⁠—but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.
Edith Wharton1862–1937The House of Mirth (1905), Book Two, Chapter 12In context
- Failure
- Life & Death
That you are here⁠—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
Walt Whitman1819–1892O Me! O Life! (1867)In context
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,
Can circumvent or hinder or control
The firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox1850–1919“Will,” included in Maurine: And Other Poems, p. 145 (1882)
- Luck
- Motivation & Goals
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), Act III
- Experience
- Failure