Robert Forman Horton famous quotes

Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter.
-- Robert Forman Horton

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Therefore, whether the desire for prayer is on you or not, get to your closet at the set time; shut yourself in with God; wait upon Him; seek His face; realize Him; pray.
-- Robert Forman Horton

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Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.

The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

Achievement has no color

Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

I have one aim—the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.

The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.