Quotes About Achievement

Today is a good day to tackle a fear and make yourself proud.

If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

For an hour or so we were furiously angry, and were possessed with an insane sense that we must go straight to the Bay of Whales and have it out with Amundsen and his men in some undefined fashion or other there and then. Such a mood could not and did not bear a moment's reflection; but it was natural enough. We had just paid the first instalment of the heart-breaking labour of making a path to the Pole; and we felt, however unreasonably, that we had earned the first right of way.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough. But it's the dough that makes the bread

Hard work makes the dough and Business makes the BREAD!

Life is not merely a gift, it is a task, an achievement. We are not simply passive recipients of the Good, but free and determinative agents who react upon what is given, taking it up into our life and working it into the texture of our character.

Eureka! [I have found it!]

We have entered an age where success alone makes us enviable, not our human qualities.

These two threads that run through our life—one pulling us into the world to achieve and make things happen, the other pulling us back from the world to nourish and replenish ourselves—can seem at odds, but in fact they reinforce each other.

It's also our collective delusion that overwork and burnout are the price we must pay in order to succeed.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference.

If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.

Man, not earth, makes civilization.

I wanted to be a writer, so I became one. How? I wrote things down.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

One's country is wherever one does well.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Victory is the end of generalship.