Thomas Edison on ambition, discipline, and the long arc of building something, distilled into a single line: "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when...". It is one of the more shared lines in our success collection, and for good reason.

Success quotes are most useful when they cut against comfort. The best ones remind you that the gap between where you are and where you want to be is usually closed by small, unglamorous, repeated choices.

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