Quotes About Achievement

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. -

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

The melancholy of everything completed!

Every acquisition, every step forward in knowledge is the result of courage, of severity toward oneself, of cleanliness with respect to oneself.

Brave and creative men never consider pleasure and pain as ultimate values—they are epiphenomena: one must desire both if one is to achieve anything.

Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce Great Men --this and nothing else is its duty

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves

Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; and yet: as long as the melody has not reached its end, it also hasn't reached its goal. A parable.

I found life easy, easiest, when it demanded the most difficult things of me.

They have something of which they are proud. What do they call it, that which makes them proud? Culture, they call it; it distinguishes them from the goatherds.

Yazar olmaya utanan en iyi yazar olacakt?r.

Don't ask, How will I climb the mountain, just climb the mountain.

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

The fleetest beast to bear you to perfection is suffering.

For your Bildung you should choose the most difficult and splendid problem, but as subject for a dissertation choose no more than a very limited and remote corner.

The Greeks are interesting and extremely important because they reared such a vast number of great individuals. How was this possible? This question is one which ought to be studied

This however is my teaching: he who wishes one day to fly, must first learn standing and walking and running and climbing and dancing:- one does not fly into flying!

You go above and beyond them: but the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. And he who flies is hated most of all.

Masters of the first rank are recognized by the fact that in matters great and small they know how to find an end perfectly, be it the end of a melody or a thought.

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

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

Qué es la felicidad? El sentimiento de lo que acrece el poder; el sentimiento de haber superado una resistencia.

I make for my goal, I follow my course; over the loitering and tardy will I leap. Thus let my on-going be their down-going!