Quotes About Achievement

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

Better the robes of a magnate and the hauberk of a warrior than to grow stale for want of challenges.

To have power and contentment at the same time, that is a rare thing indeed.

Bien sea que estudies a Dale Carnegie o a Napoleon Hill o a otros oradores más modernos, como Stephen Covey, en ellos encontrarás fórmulas para triunfar.

A man must have succeeded in something to be happy, but a woman must be needed.

For one thing, she hadn't exactly chosen a field; although she has since childhood imagined picking up her Oscar, the category has never been determined. There was some thought that by the time she grew up they would give out Oscars for Best Novel (and that by then she would have written one), or that maybe she would just get some kind of honorary Oscar for her distinctive life observations made in everyday conversations, or the occasional letter.

late-nineteenth-century recasting of the Civil War's achievement from African American emancipation to white reconciliation

Ah, medals," put in Monty disparagingly. "Medals are given to men who happen to be in the right place at the right time, that is all.

When Robert brought to the table a covered plate and lifted the lid with an excited flourish, Tim played second fiddle to a cake for the first time in his life.

Lukas are piled up like firewood for the competitive flames of my profession, I thought.

There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes one's own.

Self-pity is the hens' besetting sin," remarked Mr. Payton. "Foolish fowl. How they came to achieve anything as perfect as the egg I do not know! I cannot fathom.

La vejez tendría que ser la recompensa de una vida de mucho trabajo, pero no será más que un castigo si insistimos en seguir haciendo lo mismo de siempre, midiendo los logros del presente por el baremo de los del pasado y quedándonos cortos sin remedio.

good, better, best, never let it rest, until your good is better, and your better best.

What we are made to do we seldom do well, what we do of our own choice we make a success of for very pride.

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

bright New York City students with a scientific bent; won a full scholarship to Cornell University; and ended up

Why does getting ahead always have to involve getting up early?

more work is accomplished in one day than many diligent scribes could do in a year….

Show me your dreams. Let me make them come true.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Nothing inspires motivation more than success.

Reflected glory is just as good as the real thing

and that was when I learned that work gets done if you simply do it.