Quotes About Achievement

It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!

I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud... that was pretty cool.

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Mozart, who was buried in a pauper's grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can't be done.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, "It can't be done.

Effort: You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Timidity and shyness are fears of this sort. Unimportant, perhaps, but they are crippling to self-confidence and to achievement.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, "It can't be done.

There are two kinds of snobbishness: One is that of the man who has had a good many opportunities and looks down on those who lack them. The other is rarely understood, that of the self-made man who glories in his success in overcoming difficulties and admires greatly people who have achieved the things he considers of importance.

For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, "It can't be done.

That even if we're constantly tempted to lower our guard -- out of love, or weariness, or sympathy, or kindness-- we women shouldn't do it. We can lose from one moment to the next everything that we have achieved.

You're really doing well, it's the satisfaction you get from school, it's love," Lila said to me, and I felt that she was a little sad.

I gave a nervous laugh, then said, "Thanks, but at a certain point school is over." "Not for you: you're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.

Would she always do the things I was supposed to do, before and better than me? She eluded me when I followed her and meanwhile stayed close on my heels in order to pass me by?

Two more years: then I'll get my diploma and I'm done.' 'No, don't ever stop: I'll give you the money, you should keep studying.' I gave a nervous laugh, then said, 'Thanks, but at a certain point school is over.' 'Not for you: you're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.' She got up, took off her underpants and bra, said, 'Come on, help me, otherwise I'll be late.

Success depends on the capacity to manipulate the obvious with calculated precision.

I always have to prove that I can be better

Cómo hago para explicarle a esta mujer, pensé, que soy esclava de las letras y los números desde los seis años, que mi humor depende del éxito de sus combinaciones, que esta alegría de haberlo hecho bien es rara, inestable, que dura una hora, una tarde, una noche?

he's no one. And for a person who is no one to become someone is more important than anything else.