Leo Tolstoy on achievement
“Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.”
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy We are asleep until we fall in Love!
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
Gwendolyn BrooksGwendolyn Brooks Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.
Lewis HowesLewis Howes I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
Maria CallasMaria Callas But there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
Salman RushdieSalman Rushdie I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.
Lysa TerKeurstLysa TerKeurst It was a dream to arrive at Liverpool but I never wanted to just settle for what I had achieved. I wanted more.
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