Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Objectionable, tedious, irritating labour, - this is the condition of genius, which no doubt explains the reason why men so rarely achieve anything. Genius…

— Lev Shestov

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve,”

— Alex Ayres

“All trades, arts, and handiwork have gained by division of labor, namely, when, instead of one man doing everything, each confines himself to a…

— Immanuel Kant

“Talented man cannot do the work of a genius man.”

— Amit Kalantri

“While intellect might make a man ingenious, it is passion that keeps genius on its feet.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“But a young man should be ambitious to shine, and excel; alert, active, and indefatigable in the means of doing it.”

— Earl of Chesterfield

When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“What drives men of genius is their obsession with the idea that what has already been done is not good enough.”

— Eugène Delacroix

“Talent only gives an imperfect image--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of Genius remain unruffled.”

— Robert eldridg

“The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work.”

— William Butler Yeats

“The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his…

— Henry David Thoreau