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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882
Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
- Motivation & Goals
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Samuel Longfellow (ed.) Final Memorials (Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1887) Ch. 19: Table-Talk
For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870
- Motivation & Goals
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
- Motivation & Goals
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton1885–1945
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955
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
You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.
Oprah Winfreyborn 1954TV Guide
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962You Learn by Living (1960), p. 29–30
- Motivation & Goals
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527
- Motivation & Goals
Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
Fran Lebowitzborn 1950
- Comedy
You don’t have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.
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