They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis BaconAbility hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Golda MeirThe most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Amelia EarhartIt’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘
BonoWhatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
Maya AngelouWhat makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
George EliotNecessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark TwainEvery noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas CarlyleI know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.
Cristiano RonaldoWe are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
Charles BukowskiWrite it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWomen, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
Amelia EarhartEverybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.
Robert KiyosakiHe who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.
BuddhaYou’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.
Harper LeeThe curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
PlatoLosing is tough.
George H. W. BushWell, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
Harry S. TrumanIn testing, you make a mistake, you just say ‚OK we’ll have another go‘ instead of it being the only chance you get.
Lando NorrisThe woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
Amelia EarhartI don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.
Jim CarreyHow you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Lou HoltzWinning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.
Ayrton SennaThe superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
ConfuciusPray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.
Kevin HartI am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret ThatcherThe opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.
Herbert HooverOnly stupid people are changed by success.
Jurgen KloppI’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.
Taylor SwiftWe cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Niccolo MachiavelliEvery man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
Abraham LincolnThe barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘
Ludwig van BeethovenHe who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo da VinciStrength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Napoleon HillAll my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.
Lou HoltzOne who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Albert SchweitzerIt’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.
John KennedyDon’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Ludwig van BeethovenWhen you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
Theodore RooseveltDiscipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George WashingtonThere are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
Michelle ObamaTalent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
John RuskinAction may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin DisraeliYou sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.
J. K. RowlingYou know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.
EminemA man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
Elbert HubbardNo man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham LincolnYou have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.
Joel OsteenSuccessful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
Wayne DyerNever mistake motion for action.
Ernest HemingwaySome are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William ShakespeareThe future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
Ronald ReaganGod tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
Muhammad AliWe work to become, not to acquire.
Elbert HubbardIf I’m a star, then the people made me a star.
Marilyn MonroeIt was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
Ray BradburyFortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
Francis Bacon