4 Vincent Van Gogh Quotes on Motivation

Vincent Van Gogh quotes on motivation

35. I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

56. In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

74. Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

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91. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?