Lord Byron Quotes

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

It doesn't matter what you're chasing, when you get there you're gonna be like, "Oh, is this all? It kind of sucks."

Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the “class” or not, there is always something else to learn

The more you want, the more you stand to lose

Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it. There are always going to be things we love to do. That we dream about doing. That we really, really want to do with our lives. Those passions aren't worth a nickel.

If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.

Every one of my father's songs is a lesson.

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.

I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has happened so much to me. I keep looking for the lesson.

What looks like a failure teaches us what not to do, what does not work. We have lessons to learn from our experiences.

We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.

It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.

Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.

How can you have any regret when everything worked out fine? But why I think it worked out fine is due to the lessons I learned along the way. And one of those involves listening to experts.

I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.