Quotes About Achievement

And the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life—we went soft, we lost our edge.

La prudenza è la via della mediocrità. La mediocrità priva di passioni è tutto ciò che tanta gente crede di poter raggiungere.

Values, my dear grandchild, depend for their acceptance upon their success.

I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

But I don't know how I'll ever get a college degree and rise in the world with no high school diploma and eyes like piss holes in the snow, as everyone tells me.

but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it...

And when you are hungry, effective beats sport all hollow.

THERE IS ENCHANTMENT in a uniform, especially one that marks the wearer as a person of rare skills, courage or achievement. A

Failure is one of those things that 'serious people' dread. Invariably, the persons most likely to be crippled by this fear are people who have convinced themselves that they are SO bitchen they shouldn't ever be placed in a situation where they might fail. Failure is nothing to get upset about. It's a fairly normal condition; an inevitability in ninety-nine percent of all human undertakings. Success is rare—that's why people get so cranked up about it.

2011 Bayport Junior Bike Rally

One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

There were dark hours, of course, such as came to everybody, in which you thought you had achieved nothing at all, in which it seemed to you that only the cases predestined from the start to seucceed came to a good end, which they would have reached in any event without your help, while every one of the others was doomed to fail in spite of all your manœuvres, all your exertions, all the illusory little victories on which you plumed yourself.

There were dark hours, of course, such as came to everybody, in which you thought you had achieved nothing at all, in which it seemed to you that only the cases predestined from the start to seucceed came to a good end, which they would have reached in any event without your help, while every one of the others was doomed to fail in spite of all your manœuvres, all your exertions, all the illusory little victories on which you plumes yourself.

On the other hand, there are also dark moments, such as everyone has, when you think you've achieved nothing at all, when it seems that the only trials to come to a good end are those that were determined to have a good end from the start and would do so without any help, while all the others are lost despite all the running to and fro, all the effort, all the little, apparent successes that gave such joy.

I must be alone a great deal. What I have achieved is only a result of being alone.

can venture nothing for myself as long as I have achieved no greater work that satisfies me fully. That is certainly irrefutable.

Por qué agotarse, pues, desde ya hasta el límite de las fuerzas? Ello tendría sentido si se pudiera esperar que la torre fuera construida en el lapso de una generación.

Mientras no dejes de subir no tienen término los escalones; bajo tus pies que ascienden, crecen ellos hacia lo alto.

There are also dark moments, such as everyone has, when you think you've achieved nothing at all, when it seems that the only trials to come to a good end are those that were determined to have a good end from the start and would do so without any help, while all the others are lost despite all the running to and fro, all the effort, all the little, apparent successes that gave such joy. Then you no longer feel very sure of anything.

Orice om poate fi pentru o vreme în incapacitatea de-a lucra,dar atunci e momentul cel mai potrivit pentru a-È›i aduce aminte de realiz?rile lui anterioare È™i a te gândi c? mai târziu,de-ndat? ce dificultatea va fi învins?,va depune cu atât mai mult? sârguin?? È™i str?danie în munca lui.

There are obstacles, questionable matters, disappointments, but this merely shows, as we already knew, that nothing is given to you on a platter, that you yourself have to fight for every trifle, another reason for being proud, not dejected.

Her ÅŸeyi olduÄŸu gibi rapor edecek misiniz? Ä°nsan baz? anlarda çal??amayacak halde olabilir, ama bu anlar eski baÅŸar?lar?n hat?rlanmas? ve daha sonra, engel ortadan kald?r?ld???nda, insan?n ÅŸüphesiz daha bir azimle ve gayretle çal??aca??n?n düÅŸünülmesi için de en iyi zamand?r.