#achieve

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#labor #prize #work #life

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. ↗

— William Faulkner

#artist #goal #inspirational #inspirational

We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have. ↗

— James R. Ball

#deserve #heart #life #life

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#humor #life #morals #humor

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#authors #elements-of-style #favors #grammar #happiness

You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne of the Most High. But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#moral-superiority #morality #totalitarianism

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#distinction #hand #having #men #most

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. ↗

— George Allen, Sr.

#achieve #because #determined #know #mediocre

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#achieves #direct #direct result #fails #his

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. ↗

— James Allen

#aspire #desire #obtain