Joseph Conrad Quotes

Very often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle.

One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.

When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

I've always loved those movies where somebody really wants something, and then the thing they want is right in front of them.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

My life is like a speeding bullet that just hasn't hit the target yet.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect love, and when we get there, we dream of something else, and the journey goes on.

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

We know we are on the right path. Our journey is not finished, but we have come a long way.

The process is so much longer than the result for almost everything all of us are doing.

I have goals, so you're always trying to see if you're on the right path to get where you're trying to go.

The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

I didn't have nothing handed to me. It's a hard, long road getting to where I'm at. And I think the fans that have been down with me for a long time, they see that. They've been seeing me clawing my way to try to get to the top.

Still humping the American Dream