Quote by Dodie Smith Download Open image ““The more I strive for them the more they utterly elude me”” — Dodie Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“You will treat the weaknesses and failures of others with grace when you humbly admit that you’re more like them than unlike them.” — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“The real achievers are those who, in the dreary pit of sacrifice, still smile up at the goal.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“When ambition exceeds ability, you are going to experience hardship. We have the choice to fear it or embrace it.” — Kevin Jorgenson Copy Share Image
“The harder you try to be perfect, the less likely you’ll accomplish your goals.” — Jon Acuff Copy Share Image
“Although life urges to endorse, And yet you still have to strive, There lies within you great force That makes you get up and… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“those, who are believed to be most self—abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious” — Spinoza Copy Share Image
“I believe that, for the most part, we don’t succeed in spite of our hardships but precisely because of them.” — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“At some point, most of us reach a place where we’re afraid to fail, where we instinctively avoid failure and stick only to what… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“I suppose I'm ambitious for something in spite of the fact that most things known as success don't inspire me to try for them… — Robert McAlmon Copy Share Image
“...the possibility of success was motivating me more than the fear of failure.” — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
“I glanced through another page in case I had missed something, and came to the description of Simon's face as he lay on the… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here,… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“Now, paper and pencils," said Miss Marcy, clapping her hands. Writing paper is scarce in this house, and I had no intention of tearing… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts... — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“And I suspect that, to the eyes of love, love shows. I knew about you as well as about myself, almost from the beginning.” — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“What I'd really hate would be the settled feeling, with nothing but happiness to look forward to. Of course no life is perfectly happy-… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“There are some people who always find beauty makes them feel sadder, which is a very mysterious thing.” — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
