The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes that slumbers all the rest of the day and night. Little is to be expected of that day, if it can be called a day, to which we are not awakened by our Genius, but by the mechanical nudgings of some servitor, are not awakened by our own newly acquired force and aspirations from within.... After a partial cessation of his sensuous life, the soul of man, or its organs rather, are reinvigorated each day, and his Genius tries again what noble life it can make... The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning." All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise.

Henry David Thoreau

May you soar higher and higher, to uphold heavenly blessings.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I used to be a poet.My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.Now I am old...drunk on wine and candle fumes.Alone in this barren room, I speak my psalms to the night air so as to entertain moths before they go off to die.I used to be a poet and my words were gold.

Roman Payne

There werethings, he said mournfully, that perhaps could never be told, only hehad lived so much alone that sometimes he forgot--he forgot. The lighthad destroyed the assurance which had inspired him in the distantshadows.

Joseph Conrad

…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the eyes, and always bent on duty, trudging after Ruin, maddening, blinding Ruin. But Ruin is strong and swift—She outstrips them all by far, stealing a march, leaping over the whole wide earth to bring mankind to grief.

Homer

I work so hard for profits because my dreams are expensive.

Amit Kalantri

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

Dejan Stojanovic

Unjustified ambition kills value,Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air.If there is nothing else, it eats its own life.

Dejan Stojanovic

Overambitious projects may be objectionable in many fields, but not in literature. Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement.

Italo Calvino

Quit beating yourself up, beat your goals up instead.

Chinonye J. Chidolue

Soar to heights where you may view the world from a new perspective.

Fennel Hudson

Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back.

Sandra Chami Kassis

Step into the future with focus knowing that the only way to kill your dream is trying to find another.

Moffat Machingura

...he lacked the sort of ambition that JB and Jude had, that grim, trudging determination that kept them at the studio or office longer than anyone else, that gave them that slightly faraway look in their eyes that always made him think a fraction of them was already living in some imagined future, the contours of which were crystallized only to them.

Hanya Yanagihara

Your vision will determine your future, mirror only helps you to see your ugly or beautiful face, but only the vision you have can take you far beyond your expectations and imaginations in life.

Bamigboye Olurotimi

The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.

Sylvia Plath

Success come only through high ambition, good guidance, strong will, determining and effort.

Santonu Kumar Dhar

Every victory won was first won spiritually!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

Jane Yolen

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

Richard Koch

Great people never sleep because their dreams keep them awake and striving.

Terrance Robinson- Artist Educator Scholar Entrepreneur

In every moment of choice, you create a new destiny.

Kevin Michel

Success should be an ambition within the parameters of Purpose.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

I admire successful men and women who endured and overcome unusual circumstances to fulfill their dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Go realize your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May you find grace to accomplish your God given-goals.

Lailah Gifty Akita

God's grace is your inner strength.Go ahead and pursue your God-given dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The obstacles were intended to be a distraction from the goal.You must keep a persistence focus to realise the goal.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The holy writings are my greatest inspiration.

Lailah Gifty Akita

What lies ahead is often unknown. But keep traveling.

Lailah Gifty Akita

God will generously give you wisdom, if thy will ask.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a great adventure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Dare to climb higher heights.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You must explore the timeless opportunities in life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Be the great person you ought to be.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not exchange the 24 hours for money. Give some time for your own accomplishments.

Lailah Gifty Akita

To be myself, to follow my desires to the best of my abilities. That’s the only end worth shooting for. Success and failure lie beyond us, they may be signposts that direct us, but they are foolish goals in themselves. To truly be who I have been made to be, made myself to be, ah, that is the only mission worthy of all the life that flows within.

James Rozoff

I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had knownhow to follow with unfaltering footsteps, that life begun in humblesurroundings, rich in generous enthusiasms, in friendship, love, war--inall the exalted elements of romance.

Joseph Conrad

Resistance is a sign that shows you're going the right way

Constance Friday

There comes a moment when the image of our life parts company with the life itself, stands free, and, little by little, begins to rule us. Already in The Joke: “I came to realize that there was no power capable of changing the image of my person lodged somewhere in the supreme court of human destinies; that this image (even though it bore no resemblance to me) was much more real than my actual self; that I was its shadow and not it mine; that I had no right to accuse it of bearing no resemblance to me, but rather that it was I who was guilty of the nonresemblance; and that the nonresemblance was my cross, which I could not unload on anyone else, which was mine alone to bear.”And in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: “Destiny has no intention of lifting a finger for Mirek (for his happiness, his security, his good spirits, his health), whereas Mirek is ready to do everything for his destiny (for its grandeur, its clarity, its beauty, its style, its intelligible meaning). He felt responsible for his destiny, but his destiny did not feel responsible for him.

Milan Kundera

If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way.

Habeeb Akande

When you encounter obstacles, don’t turn your back on them. Face them, confront them and your will see them dissolving in front of your eyes.

Roopleen

...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of his person, who consumes much time and employs great pains in dressing himself, or who thinks himself paid for self-denial, labour, or even villany, by a title or a ribbon, sacrifice as much to vanity as the poor wit who is desirous to read you his poem or his play?

Henry Fielding

Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution.

Grigoris Deoudis

Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic.

Criss Jami

What a great pleasure to work for your living?

Lailah Gifty Akita

What do I aspire to be? Just an ordinary person who values living.

Marty Rubin

…I wanted to remove,my diamond earrings,for I felt they were,weighing a little heavy.I wanted to remove my heels,for I felt they were,taking me a little,above the ground,than I needed to be.I wanted to,throw away my blazer,for it was too much,of a thick layer,to what I am deep inside.” (Poem- Unambitious, Book- Ginger and Honey)

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

You possess great strength and vitality.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.

Criss Jami

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