Quotes About Achievement

You never get to the face because the body's so good." (Referring to Steffi Graf)49

There are advantages to being President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit.

Intellectual and moral progress is not a matter of getting closer to an antecedent goal but of surpassing the past.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Feminism is still a subject which provokes passion and, it has to be said, unreason. 'Are you for it or against it?' is the most question. But such polarization is now unhelpful, obscuring an understanding of what feminism has achieved, what has changed, and what role gender now actually does play.

Those women who fought the original battles suffer more than most. Hated and opposed when originally pushing down the barriers, they now often have to face contempt from a society which takes for granted their achievements.

Achieving power, man reached out for the secret of control; and as he began to look beyond the end of his penis, he found a stronger lord, a greater master - God.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

The drive to be successful and the fear of failure are, like the head and tail of a coin, inseparably linked.

They goaded me on to unusual efforts and caused me, and those around me, considerable suffering. Of course, the surprising thing was that my increasing success did little to lessen the tension.

You are more likely to be successful, overall, if you participate joyfully with projects and goals and do not think your life depends on achieving the mark because then you will be better able to connect to people all around you.

Most would recognize at core that the main purpose of grades is to compare one student against another.

I understand that trying and achieving are the same thing when you are your own master—and I am.

the name by which she would—maybe embarrassing to say but she thought it anyway—the name by which she would rise in the world.

It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what opportunity is and what isn't. — Lucille Ball

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.

When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.

For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won.

There's always a piece of unfinished work left, but I suppose there is always someone to finish it.

You never can tell what you can do till you try.

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