Quotes About Achievement

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For all of my success, in looking back I couldn't identify a moment when, at core, I had felt fully at home with myself. My

It was not that I felt that I'd done poorly; I just realized that I'd missed the chance to do wel..

I am not sure, I answered. I hope it won't break my heart if I don't do well. I had been concentrating on developing that kind of attitude since I'd emerged from my depression in November. I'd realized how much I had taken the achievement ethic to heart - I had been so hard on my mistakes and middling performances. A sincere effort was all I owed myself.

It was not that I felt that I'd done poorly; I just realized that I'd missed the chance to do very well.

Winning is like sex—the spirit inevitably craves the next occasion.

In the blue time, math kicked ass. -Dess

Dude, I just watched you climb up a f*cking building!-Lace

Whoever strives in ceaseless toil, Him we may grant redemption

But when, in spite of weakness and disappointments, we set to work in earnest, and persevere steadily, we often find, that, though obliged continually to tack, we make more way than others who have the assistance of wind and tide; and, in truth, there can be no greater satisfaction than to keep pace with others or outstrip them in the race.

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days. Whatever you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

How many new discoveries does not a person make when on some high point he ascends but a single story higher.

The deed is everything, the glory nothing.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

You know what's wanted here, We need strong ale to appear: So brew me a barrel right away! Tomorrow won't do what's undone today,

MEFISTÓFELES No, serás tú el que la gane. En esta ocasión serás tú el general en jefe. FAUSTO Esto sería un auténtico timbre de gloria para mí: dar órdenes sobre algo de lo que no entiendo.

Çünkü anlad?m ki, büyük i?leri, mümkün görünmeyeni ba?aran s?rad??? insanlar?n eskiden beri sarho?lar ve deliler oldu?unu ilan etmek gerek.

Men get out of countenance with themselves and others because they treat the means as the end, and so, from sheer doing, do nothing, or, perhaps, just what they would have avoided.

Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.

In contemplation as in action, we must distinguish between what may be attained and what is unattainable. Without this, little can be achieved, either in life or in knowledge.

Para alcanzar todos los deseos, mira hacia allá, mira la luz.

car j'ai appris que tous les hommes extraordinaires qui ont fait quelque chose de grand, quelque chose qui semblait impossible, ont de tout temps été qualifiés d'ivres et d'insensés.

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

Al hombre hecho nada hay que le satisfaga; aquel que está en camino de serlo, será siempre agradecido.