Philip James Bailey Quotes

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient.

The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

Anybody can say they want to be the greatest ever. I take pride in it. If you're around me long enough and watch me work, that's what I'm striving for. I won't stop until I am.

I just want to go for it. In every aspect of my life and careers, I just want to give it all I have.

I don’t want to be a person with full hands, resting from dreams, but a person full of dreams unable to rest his hands.

That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world here-should he need the next, Let the world mind him! This, throws himself on God, and unperplext Seeking shall find Him.

I dream in fire but work in clay.

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.

I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?

The war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.

But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.

Those that weather the storm are the great ones.

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

Savor every moment and go after your dreams.

Never quit. Never give up.

Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess, but if you stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.