Quotes About Achievement

Work gets done if you simply do it.

Bob first greeted them at graduation, appeared

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.

Isaac Newton had demonstrated to Voltaire's satisfaction that human reason alone can discover the true inner workings of nature and the universe. Indeed, the human mind could achieve almost any goal it set for itself, as long as it remained grounded in experience and truth.

You are only remembered and become famous because of your mistakes. —DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

This country seems able to do more by accident than any other country can do on purpose.—Employee at Bechtel-McCone B-29 modification plant, Birmingham, Alabama, 1943

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!

Only that which is done

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

I would have thought that the knowledge that you are going to be leapt upon by half-a-dozen congratulatory, but sweaty team-mates would be inducement not to score a goal.

Man shall never reach the moon, for such a quantity of gunpowder would be needed as to gravely injure the crew.

A man can't go out the way he came in… a man has got to add up to something!

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

And in terms of their crown jewel legislative achievement: who knew that when asked, 'will government impose a new federal mandate requiring middle class Americans to buy health insurance whether they can afford it or not?' The answer would be 'Yes we can!'

En realidad estoy menos orgulloso de lo que soy que de lo que he conseguido no ser.

No me digan que no es vergonzoso para la especie humana haber medido la distancia de la Tierra al Sol, haber pesado todos los planetas cercanos, y no haber descubierto las leyes fecundas que hacen la felicidad de los pueblos.