All great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art - by adjusting efforts to obstacles.
—Napoleon Bonaparte
Showing posts with label achievement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label achievement. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
Friday, June 14, 2013
Post #1276
Nothing is more dishonourable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age.
—Seneca
—Seneca
Monday, April 08, 2013
Monday, November 19, 2012
Post #1115
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
—Horace Walpole
—Horace Walpole
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Post #1076
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
—John Ruskin
—John Ruskin
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Post #902
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
—Theodore Roosevelt
—Theodore Roosevelt
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Post #898
One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
—George Allen
—George Allen
Sunday, May 08, 2011
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
- Native Texan · Navy Veteran · Various Scars and Tattoos · No Talent yet a Character