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“They can because they think they can.”
Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V
“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
Letter to his niece, Harriet Washington (30 October 1791)
1790s
Variant: It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang , p. 55.
“Go as far as you can see and you will see further.”
Variant: Go so far as you can see and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.
Source: See You at the Top (2000), p. 164; Variant: When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
Context: Go so far as you can see and when you get there you will always be able to see farther. … as you head toward your goals, be prepared to make some slight adjustments to your course. You don't change your decision to go — you do change your direction to get there.
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
As quoted in Trigger Events – How To Find Your Next Customer (2007) by Alen Majer, p. 22
“Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.”
Variant: Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great”
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
Shared on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MayaAngelou/posts/10150251846629796, July 4, 2011
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
As quoted in Our Precarious Habitat (1973) by Melvin A. Benarde, p. v
Context: Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
As quoted in Our Precarious Habitat (1973) by Melvin A. Benarde, p. v
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
“Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Attributed to Winston Churchill in The Prodigal Project : Book I : Genesis (2003) by Ken Abraham and Daniel Hart, p. 224 and other places, though no source attribution is given. It actually derives from an advertising campaign for Budweiser beer in the late 1930s.
Misattributed
Variant: Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/03/success-final/