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My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.
Charles Bukowski1920–1994Factotum (1975), Ch. 45, Manny
- Motivation & Goals
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As “fail”.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873Richelieu (1839)
- Failure
- Youth
What men want is not talent, it is purpose,⁠—in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873Lucretia (1846), Part II, Chapter XII
- Motivation & Goals
- Work
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796), No. 3
- Motivation & Goals
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns1896–1996
Now a’ is done that men can do,
And a’ is done in vain.
Robert Burns1759–1796Johnson’s The Scots Musical Museum (1787–1796)
- Failure
The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men
Gang aft a-gley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy.
Robert Burns1759–1796To a Mouse (1786)In context
- Failure
- Luck
The junk merchant doesn’t sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.
William S. Burroughs1914–1997“Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs”, written in 1956, first published in The British Journal of Addiction, Vol. 52, No. 2 (January 1957), p. 1 and later used as footnotes in Naked Lunch
- Business
I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
George W. Bushborn 1946Interview with the Associated Press (18 January 2001)
They never fail who die
In a great cause.
Lord Byron1788–1824Marino Faliero, Act II, Scene 2, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Failure
- Life & Death
I came, I saw, I conquered.
Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).
I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
Joseph Campbell1904–1987The Power of Myth (book), p. 120
- Happiness
- Motivation & Goals
The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Albert Camus1913–1960The Myth of Sisyphus
- Happiness
- Motivation & Goals
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote1924–1984From “Self-Portrait” (1972)