Quotes About Achievement

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

I felt like I was never going to be a great writer. I felt like I was going to be a good writer at best. I wanted to be great at something.

I have completed the construction of my burrow and it seems to be successful

In running, it doesn't matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say, 'I have finished.' There is a lot of satisfaction in that.

allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

They were great in their day and generation.

It was the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties, and I look back to it now, after so many years, with some complacency and a little wonder that I could have been so earnest and persevering in any pursuit other than for my daily bread. I certainly saw nothing in the conduct of those around to inspire me with such interest: they were all devoted exclusively to what their hands found to do.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

It is so pleasant to feel that we have succeeded in doing what all the People who Know told us was impossible.

rien de grand dans le monde ne s'est accomplis sans passion

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal,  and yet if  a melody has not  reached its end, it has not reached its goal.