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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

William Faulkner
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
"William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner
Inspirational, Running, Dream

History is not was, it is.

William Faulkner
Inspirational, Motivational, History

Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

William Faulkner
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive
Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

William Faulkner
Love, Inspirational, Wisdom
William Faulkner (2011). “Flags in the Dust: The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, which appeared in a cut version as Sartoris”, p.68, Vintage

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