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If you absolutely can’t tolerate critics, then don’t do anything new or interesting.
Jeff Bezosborn 1964What Amazon’s Jeff Bezos thinks about Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker (BoingBoing) (dubbed “The Bezos Principle” by Walt Mossberg) June 2016
- Business
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
The Bible (King James Version)Ecclesiastes 9:10 (KJV)In context
- Motivation & Goals
- Work
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
The Bible (King James Version)Ecclesiastes 9:11 (KJV)In context
- Luck
Ambition, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Motivation & Goals
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Josh Billings1818–1885Often credited to George Bernard Shaw
He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.
William Blake1757–1827Proverbs of Hell, Line 5
- Motivation & Goals
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In England’s green & pleasant Land.
William Blake1757–1827And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time (c. 1808)In context
- Motivation & Goals
- Patriotism
To err is human. To blame it on somebody else is even more human.
ABArthur Blochborn 1948
- Failure
Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.
PBPaul Boese
- Motivation & Goals
- Nature
Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
EBErma Bombeck1927–1996
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, Yes, I’ve got dreams, of course I’ve got dreams. Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they’re still there.
EBErma Bombeck1927–1996
- Motivation & Goals
It’s much harder to be relevant than it is to be successful.
Bonoborn 1960CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
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
Have you ever heard people say ‘don’t sweat the details’? Well, they’re wrong: sweat the details. They have a name for people who sweat the details: millionaires.
JBJerry Bowyerborn 1962