Achieve Quote by Jess Walter

“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.”

— Jess Walter

Desire and determination must overcome disappointment.

— Walter Alston

How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are shadows, not…

— Richard Francis Burton

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as…

— Samuel Johnson

“As an author my number 1 goal is to help others overcome despair...which is something that has plague me in my lifetime. If my…

— Timothy Pina

“In comparison with all this, our little stories of achievement seem pitiful; Too well we know what bitterness of failure, loss, disillusionment, and ironic…

— Joseph Campbell

“It’s like there’s a check-list of accomplishments that people expect from you. Like it’s the only path to happiness, this societal construct of what…

— Liz Newman

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

— Dorothy Parker

“Success achieved on the basis of struggle may bring good things to us, but the inner fulfillment we seek from these things will be…

— Deepak Chopra

In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.

— Zicheng Hong

“The five qualities of a good goal; It has to ambitious, achievable, accurate and specified, measurable, leads to the feeling of life quality.”

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

“When becoming a writer don’t think of success, imagine you are throwing your book into a vast ocean with the only hope that enough…

— Mark L Lloyd