Quotes About Achievement

All is fish that cometh to net.

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

During the eighteen months that followed Halley's visit, Isaac worked day and night on the book. He didn't mind the sacrifice. A living, growing thing took shape before his eyes. Never mind that he ate irregularly. Never mind if he kept at it eighteen hours a day. The book would be worth all the effort.

The measure of human success is no longer the life well lived but the lifestyle well lived.

Every student is a chance for greatness.

Hispanics are faring quite poorly relative to most other groups, and Asians are faring quite well, as they surpass whites by a comfortable margin.

The story for Hispanics and Asians is complicated by the fact that many are immigrants or the children of immigrants, meaning that we have to take into account how the process of adaptation and assimilation (or possible lack thereof) affects their patterns of socioeconomic achievement and health over time and across generations.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

enough for the Republic—but the Empire is order from chaos. What we do here—and in thousands of systems just like this one—brings us closer to our ultimate goal." Sloane thought for a moment. "Perfection?" "Whatever the Emperor wants.

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

Once you achieve a small dream and make a small success, it gives you confidence to go on the next step

The baseline level—that's where we stumble and fall, that's where we go through the motions. And that's where most of us live, most of the time. But the health of a society can be measured by how often and how meaningfully its people are able to reach that higher plane, to live lives bigger than they are.

Se aclama a los escaladores que ponen en peligro su vida por alcanzar la cima del Everest. Se critica a los escaladores que cometen un leve error de cálculo o planificación y mueren en el intento. Pero nadie recuerda a los escaladores que fueron conscientes de sus limitaciones y se dieron la vuelta a pocos metros de la cima. Puede que estén vivos, pero olvidados.»

Incluso cuando se está condenado al fracaso, vale la pena poner en práctica todo lo que uno sabe, para que cuando llegue la derrota inevitable, uno tenga al menos la satisfacción de saber que hizo cuando estaba en su mano para evitarlo.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

At once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature & which Shakespeare possessed so enormously—I mean Negative Capability, that is, when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.

I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

It is your duty and responsibility to become successful,

this is one of the truths of success. Our success helps many people. Our failure helps no one.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

You have many years to livedo things you will be proud to remember when you're old.