Quotes by Poets - Page 13

He has achieved success who has lived well laughed often and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children.
Bessie A. Stanley
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Kenneth Boulding
Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause.
Phyllis McGinley
Out of every fruition of success no matter what comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.
Walt Whitman
We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.
Johann von Goethe
Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.
James Russell Lowell
Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?
Robert Louis Stevenson
Oh! Much may be done by defying The ghosts of Despair and Dismay And much may be gained by relying On "Where there's a Will There's a Way."
Eliza Cook
The journey is my home.
Muriel Rukeyser
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labor.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The reward of the general is not a bigger tent but command.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
Henrik Ibsen
Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
T.S Eliot
It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.
Robert W. Service
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann von Goethe
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend.
Joseph Addison
Vice Is nice But a little virtue Won't hurt you.
Felicia Lamport
Until they are of the age to use the brain.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
Who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
Pietro Metastasio
He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
William Shakespeare
The brave man carves out his fortune and every man is the sum of his own works.
Miguel de Cervantes
There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but you may note this fact that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
Bliss Carman
Success which is something so simple in the end is made up of thousands of things we never fully know what.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Get place and wealth if possible with grace If not by any means get wealth and place.
Alexander Pope
Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things but just look what they can do when they stick together.
Vesta M. Kelly
There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed but you may note this fact that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
Bliss Carman
The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Don Marquis
Success for the striver washes away the effort of striving.
Pindar
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.
Charles Baudelaire
Things done well and with care exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare
From a distance it is something and nearby it is nothing.
Jean de La Fontaine
I was afraid to write Fear of Flying ergo I had to write it. I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it then I must do it.
Erica Jong
You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish and if that be so why not now and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn so change of studies a dull brain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lxnig sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
William Shenstone
Neat not gaudy.
Charles Lamb
We are growing serious and let me tell you that's a very next step to being dull.
Joseph Addison
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars nor its great scholars great men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Silently one by one in the infinite meadows of heaven Blossomed the lovely stars the forget-me-nots of the angels.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Yet Ah that Spring should vanish with the Rose. That Youth's sweetscented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang Ah whence and whither flown again who knows?
Omar Khayyám
For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad so tender yet so true.
William Shenstone
These blessed candles of the night.
William Shakespeare
And thereby hangs a tale.
William Shakespeare
Her blue eyes sought the west afar For lovers love the western star.
Walter Scott
Came the Spring with all its splendor All its birds and all its blossoms All its flowers and leaves and grasses.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If there comes a little thaw Still the air is chill and raw Here and there a patch of snow Dirtier than the ground below Dribbles down a marshy flood Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing "This is Spring."
C. P. Cranch
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.
Horace
If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work.
William Shakespeare
The soul ... is audible not visible.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's important to be heroic ambitious productive efficient creative and progressive but these qualities don't necessarily nurture the soul. The soul has different concerns of equal value: downtime for reflection conversation and reverie beauty that is captivating and pleasuring relatedness to the environs and to people and any animal's rhythm of rest and activity.
Thomas Moore
Soul appears when we make room for it.
Thomas Moore