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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
- Failure
- Motivation & Goals
Action … is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
- Motivation & Goals
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
We must have patience and not lose heart, submitting to the will of God, and striving incessantly, as I have resolved to do, come what may.
William the Silent1533–1584Letter to his brother, Louis of Nassau, as quoted in William the Silent (1897) by Frederic Harrison, p. 93
- Faith
- Motivation & Goals
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
There is no more powerful motivation than to feel we’re being used in the creation of a world where love has healed all wounds.
Marianne Williamsonborn 1952A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles” (1992), Ch. 7: Work, §9: Sales to Service
- Love
- Motivation & Goals
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson1907–1987As quoted in 0 to Bitch in 10 Seconds Or Less: Quips and Comebacks for Quick-Witted Women (2005) by Amy Hatch, p. 268.
- Failure
American industry is not free, as once it was free; American enterprise is not free; the man with only a little capital is finding it harder to get into the field, more and more impossible to compete with the big fellow.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924The New Freedom (1913), Section I: “The Old Order Changeth”, p. 15
- Business
- Economics
You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.
Oprah Winfreyborn 1954TV Guide
Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.
WWWalter D. WintleOften credited to Vince Lombardi
Ambition is the death of thought.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Culture and Value (1980), p. 77e
- Motivation & Goals
- Thinking
If a man has talent and can’t use it, he’s failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
Thomas Wolfe1900–1938
- Failure
Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
John Wooden1910–2010
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
John Wooden1910–2010Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court (1997)
- Motivation & Goals
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden1910–2010
- Motivation & Goals