Achieve Quote by Iain Pears

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion…

— Edmund Burke

His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not cut out…

— Julian Barnes

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

— Joseph Heller

“He could not do most things, and what he could do, he did. But William had always been capable of many things. The stress…

— Paula Marantz Cohen

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.

— Robert E. Lee

Prince led by example. As prolific as he was as an artist, he was just as courageous in the business.

— Benji Madden

Some succeeded because they are destined to, but he succeeded because he was Determined to.

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

“What made his face burn was a sense of failure, the yearning for freedom that remained unfulfilled and the acute realisation that he didn't…

— Park Wansuh

“He had been too successful, you see; his was that solitude of contempt and distrust which success brings to him who gained it because…

— William Faulkner

“In a world in which success was the only virtue, he had resigned himself to failure.”

— Joseph Heller

“He always kept up his spirits, and was able in literary circles to show that he could hold his own. But he was driven…

— Anthony Trollope

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald