Quotes About Achievement

Any happiness is a masterpiece.

Ciascuno di noi ha più qualità di quel che non si creda, ma solo il successo le mette in luce, forse perché allora ci si aspetta di vederci smettere di esercitarle.

Cada uno de nosotros posee más virtudes de lo que se cree, pero sólo el éxito las pone de relieve

Each of us has more virtues than he is credited with, but success alone brings them to view, perhaps because then we may be expected to cease practicing them.

Il n'était ambitieux qu'avec nonchalance ; il était exigeant sans être avide, ayant de tout temps l'habitude de tout obtenir.

Qualsiasi felicità è un capolavoro: il minimo errore la falsa, la minima esitazione la incrina, la minima grossolanità la deturpa, la minima insulsaggine la degrada.

Cada uno de nosotros posee más virtudes de lo que se cree, pero sólo el éxito las pone de relieve, quizá porque entonces se espera que dejemos de manifestarlas.

The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.

Don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for

We think we're powerful because of what we've achieved rather than because of what we are.

In summation, there are four rules for miraculous work creation: Be positive. Send love. Have fun. Kick ass.

Pero los judíos, además, son conocidos por la forma en que estimulan los logros intelectuales en sus hijos.

How could everybody think that this stupid game of "making it in the world"—which I was actually embarrassed I didn't know how to play—could be all there is to our being here?

Si queremos alcanzar logros en el mundo exterior, tendremos que lograr progresos en nuestro interior. Porque el nivel de conciencia es el nivel de la causa; resolver

Some might have said that he was color-struck, but color had nothing to do with it, it was all about where he had come from and where he wanted to go—it had been all about the climb.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

I think that in our earlier history--the Gettysburg Address or something--there was the conscious sense that democracy was an achievement. It was not simply the most efficient modern system or something. It was something that people collectively made and they understood that they held it together by valuing it.

Now we are less interested in equipping and refining thought, more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield measurable enhancements of material well-being—for those who create and master them, at least. Now

Pour atteindre un objectif, il faut tout donner jusqu'à ce qu'il ne vous reste rien. Alors, votre objectif se réalisera tout seul.

Je suis un bâtisseur, je suis un homme de chantier, bien plus qu'un théoricien, et c'est peut-être la raison pour laquelle je suis convaincu qu'il n'y a que l'oeuvre effectivement construite qui puisse satisfaire aux attente de la société. Chaque fois que le projet réussit à dépasser le stade de la gestation, il s'enrichit au contact de la réalité.

Nekad neuztraucies par naudu. Dom? par slavu.

But great men are not born great, they grow great, and so it was with Vito Corleone.

los dramáticos contrastes de un país donde los trabajadores viven amontonados en un cuarto y sólo tienen derecho a comprar dos vestidos al año, mientras engordan con la satisfacción de saber que un proyectil soviético ha llegado a la luna»

Happiness isn't what happens when you whistle along, pretending bad things don't exist. . . Happiness is earned, like everything else. It's achieved.