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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.


Michelangelo Buonarroti

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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
MICHELANGELO Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish
MICHELANGELO I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI May the Lord grant you tender kind heart.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Be found of us whom Thou hast deigned to seek, / Be found that we the more may seek for Thee; / Lord...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
NIKOLAI GOGOL There's not anything, I don't think, that I can do or accomplish.
DREW BREES You can actually accomplish all that you desire in life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 O God, grant that today I may not disappoint any ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more su...
STANLEY HAUERWAS ...I will go and do what the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments un...
BOOK OF MORMON Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time...
, ALWAYS NOW, 1997 In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than ...
EDVARD MUNCH Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promi...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The best artist has that thought alone
Which is contained within the marble shell;
The sculp...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI This comes from dangling from the ceiling
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Genius is eternal patience.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and ...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble tha...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in set...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Trifles go to make perfection,
And perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes
The more th...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Patience is eternal genius
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Precious is sleep, better to be of stone,
while the oppression and the shame still last;
n...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Ancora Imparo

(Yet I am learning)
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble tha...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The greatest artist does not have any concept
Which a single piece of marble does not itself co...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI O night, O sweetest time, though black of hue,
with peace you force all the restless work to en...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI God grant that I may never live to be useless!
JOHN WESLEY May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that...
SAINT IGNATIUS I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
AARON ECKHART Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 O Lord our God, grant u...
ST. ANSELM There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work hard...
DEREK JETER May I always be found 'on the Lord's errand.'
THOMAS S. MONSON Lord grant me the courage to do the things I can, the serenity to accept the things I can't, and the...
UNKNOWN Grant, O Lord my God, that I may never fall away in success or in failure; that I may not be pridefu...
THOMAS AQUINAS One thing I've learned about myself is that I can accomplish anything I want to. The caveat is that ...
CRYSTAL WOODS I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
CHARLES COLSON I will write a grant and submit that grant so we can continue this.
JOE GALLEGOS I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, ...
RUSSELL M. NELSON Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
MARTIN LUTHER Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart
MARTIN LUTHER You can have anything you want-if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have...
ROBERT COLLIER You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, h...
ROBERT COLLIER A man of ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything.
DONALD KIRCHER That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he wil...
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But w...
DALAI LAMA I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.
RIC FLAIR I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
ADAM DRIVER I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.
MARY MACLANE It absolutely proves that you can accomplish more than you think. We redefined our own lives and wha...
DONALD LEWIS I believe that I have always told the truth.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER People often ask whether I consider myself successful. I don't yet, because there's so much ...
DAVID ULEVITCH I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
VAN MORRISON I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.
BELA FLECK Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myse...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the thi...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.
OSCAR NIEMEYER I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine...
RICHARD DAWKINS May God continue to grant you more grace for your work.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.
ZACK GREINKE I desire respect more than I fear death; without respect, I’m dead already.
SCOTTIE SOMERS Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in ...
PLATO I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.
KATARINA WITT I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
KING JAMES I The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
HENRIK IBSEN Raise the bar and set yourself some new challenges. You can accomplish more than you think.
REBECCA GORDON I think we're going to be great. I don't think we can accept anything less than being great. If we a...
BRANDON MERIWEATHER Believe in yourself, take action, persevere and always desire success more than you fear failure.
SCOTTIE SOMERS I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth...
SAINT PATRICK I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
MAELLE GAVET I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.
CAROLYN KIZER Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fi...
CAMILO GOMES JR. I have never seen a more impressive display of heart and desire. I may just have to resign now.
JASON KERR I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out.
IAN FRAZIER I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolis...
CHARLES KOCH What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?
GEORGE ELIOT I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the lates...
SAMUEL BARBER It's simple, ... I'm always striving to do more. Whatever I accomplish, it's not enough. I don't get...
BRIAN DAWKINS I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that. But I've ...
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