Inspirational Quote by Catherynne M. Valente

“When ambition exceeds ability, you are going to experience hardship. We have the choice to fear it or embrace it.”

— Kevin Jorgenson

“No ambition but to use up the big wages on more drink and more hopeless horses.”

— Irvine Welsh

“If you are rich and full-fed, don’t laugh at the impulsiveness of the poor. They were not acting from their souls, but they were…

— Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi

“Certainly,nothing proceeded according to desire.In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental. Good intentions had miscarried,…

— Joseph Heller

“Fortune or misfortune, a man can but try; there's not to be done without trying - accept laying down and dying.”

— Charles Dickens

“I didn't have the luxury of living only in a single moment. I had to live in a hundred fractured moments that held our…

— Mary E. Pearson

“It seemed to me to give up you first had to give in to something. I had no ambitions, no idea what I wanted…

— Lauren Nicolle Taylor

“All I’d ever really wanted was to live a happy life, an existence without fear. So far, I hadn’t gotten there…yet. But I refused…

— J.S. Scott

“The lot of the man who has rebelled too much is to have no energy left except for disappointment.”

— E.M. Cioran

“A comfortable and easy life leaves no room for growth. We must therefore embrace our hardships and the lessons they bring.”

— Peprah Boasiako

“And though I feel an unfathomable exhaustion, I feel compelled to keep at it, as though to give up working would be to concede…

— Steven Laffoley

“Actions fueled by desperation. They were the worst kinds of decisions, because desperate people could see the error of their ways and simply not…

— Emily Lloyd-Jones