Achieve Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence. -St.John Rivers”

— Charlotte Brontë

An unstated but crucial premise is that the "responsible men" achieve that exalted status by their service to authentic power, a fact of life…

— Noam Chomsky

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

— Joseph Heller

When men achieve the fruits of their material success, they often become aware of an emptiness--an incompleteness--in their lives;the hollowness of having, but not…

— Willard Gaylin

Men, who achieve much, die as do those who achieve nothing.

— Clarence H. Burns

It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent, in fact.…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”

— Serena B. Miller

Everything new troubles us. Life catches us unawares and obliges us to journey towards the unknown, even when we do not want to, even…

— Paulo Coelho

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in…

— Ibrahim Babangida

“How did it all come about—this miracle of love? She didn’t know. It had come upon her unawares... softly.”

— Janette Oke

... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.

— Hildegard Knef

In this dim world of clouding cares, We rarely know, till wildered eyes See white wings lessening up the skies, The angels with us…

— Gerald Massey