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There’s a way to do it better⁠—find it.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
- Motivation & Goals
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Edison1847–1931The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison (1948), p. 110
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Socrates470–399 BC
- Motivation & Goals
He is able who thinks he is able.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
- Motivation & Goals
To be thrown upon one’s own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Failure
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990
Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.
Roger Babson1875–1967
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi1913–1970
- Failure
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004
- Business
- Government
If investments are keeping you awake at night, sell down to the sleeping point.
?Unattributed
- Business
- Money
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1893), Act II (Vivie)
- Motivation & Goals
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh1853–1890Often credited to George Eliot
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon1769–1821
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Jimmy Johnsonborn 1943
- Motivation & Goals