Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith, born in 1728, made his name as a novelist, playwright and poet, and is best known for The Vicar of Wakefield and the comedy She Stoops to Conquer. He also wrote a satirical work in letters called The Citizen of the World, narrated by an imagined Chinese philosopher living in London. … Read more
Inventor Charles F. Kettering spent his working life in the untidy business of trying things that mostly did not work. He earned lasting recognition for inventing the electric starter, which replaced the hand crank in motor cars. People widely credit him with the line, “Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble … Read more
The line is everywhere: “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” It shows up on gym walls, in graduation speeches, and at the bottom of a thousand social media posts, always credited to Confucius. The exact modern wording is a paraphrase rather than a direct translation, but … Read more
Unlike many quotes that trace back to a single well-documented moment, this one has no confirmed author. It circulates widely across social media, motivational pages and personal blogs, often shared without attribution, which is unusual for a line this often repeated. That anonymity does not weaken it. If anything, it points to why the quote … Read more
Elon Musk on Doing Things the Odds Say You Shouldn’t Most advice about risk tells people to calculate the odds first and act second. Musk’s line flips that order. It suggests that once you have decided something genuinely matters, the odds become a secondary concern rather than the deciding factor. It is a short sentence, … Read more