Quotes to Stay Determined · Page 64
Fierce words to fuel your drive and remind you nothing can stop you.
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“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, / Or what's a heaven for?”
“Fail I alone, in words and deeds? / Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”
“I find earth not gray but rosy; / Heaven not grim but fair of hue.”
“Inscribe all human effort with one word, / Artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!”
“I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be.”
“When the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.”
“'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!”
“Strive, and hold cheap the strain; / Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!”
“Better have failed in the high aim, as I, / Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed”
“A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.”
“He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.”
“In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.”
“There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.”
“Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.”
“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”