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The Times Great Quotations: Famous quotes to inform, motivate and inspire
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Sir Henry Royce, English engineer (1863–1933)
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Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
Sir Philip Sidney, English poet (1554–1586)
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Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu, Chinese strategist (545–470 BC)
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Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the US (1858–1919)
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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
[Speech in Chicago, 1899]
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the US (1858–1919)
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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
[The Strenuous Life speech, 1899]
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the US (1858–1919)
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
[Commencement speech at Sarah Lawrence College, 1988]
Toni Morrison, American writer (1931–)
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
[Letter to his brother Theo, 1881]
Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (1853–1890)
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The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
[Interview with The Paris Review, 1956]
William Faulkner, American writer (1897–1962)
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
The Mansion (1959)
William Faulkner, American writer (1897–1962)
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Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.
Troilus and Cressida (1602)
William Shakespeare, English poet and dramatist (1564–1616)
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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.
[Campaign speech at New York State Fair Grounds, Syracuse, 1912]
Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the US (1856–1924)
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
[Attr.]
Sir Winston Churchill, prime minister of the UK, historian and Nobel Prize winner (1874–1965)
BELIEFS AND DOUBT (#ulink_eab63bd3-19b8-5c01-8ef3-0eafaaa5c249)
It is often said that there is no such thing as a free lunch. The universe, however, is a free lunch.
Harper’s Magazine (1994)
Alan Guth, American theoretical physicist (1947–)
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