#achieve

And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#self-confidence #london

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#ambition #brave #caring #devotion #victory

If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it! ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#self-confidence #self-confidence

Trust what you know; have faith in where you go; if there's no wind, row; or go with the flow. ↗

— Ed Parrish III

#act #believe-in-yourself #confidence #direction #faith

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to? ↗

— Ayn Rand

#admiration #atlas-shrugged #inspirational #love #objectivism

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#achievement #among #asserted #commonly #english

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#college #getting #greatest #high #high school

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

#difficulties #discouragements #doubts #failures #false

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#doing #field #know #play #success

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#attended #company #goodness #love #men