Quotes About Achievement

To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted to you, that the world looks on and approves, that some good is always being done to others -- above all things some good to your country; -- that is happiness.

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

A man has usually to work through much mud before he gets his nugget.

It was a great thing,—a very great thing;—he had no hesitation in saying that it was one of the greatest things out.  He didn't believe a greater thing had ever come out.

The love of titles is common to all men, and a vicar or a fellow is as pleased at becoming Mr. Archdeacon or Mr. Provost, as a lieutenant at getting his captaincy, or a city tallow-chandler in becoming Sir John on the occasion of a Queen's visit to a new bridge.

Anthony Trollope

An aspirant must learn everything; but a man may make his fortune at it, and know almost nothing.

She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good. Had

The Triumph of the Giants

Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER LXX AT LAST

CHAPTER LXXV ARABELLA'S SUCCESS

Perhaps I may do something by writing,' said Charley, very bashfully. 'By writing! ha, ha, ha,' and Alaric laughed somewhat cruelly at the poor navvy—' do something by writing! what will you do by writing? will you make £20,000—or 20,000 pence? Of all trades going, that, I should say, is likely to be the poorest for a poor man—the poorest and the most heart-breaking.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life. And by practice this becomes extended to so many branches, that the delights, — and also the disappointments, — are very widespread

She continued writing up to 1856, when she was seventy-six years old,--and had at that time produced 114 volumes, of which the first was not written till she was fifty. Her career offers great encouragement to those who have not begun early in life, but are still ambitious to do something before they depart hence.

But you may be sure of this, that men and women ought to grow, like plants, upwards. Everybody should endeavour to stand as well as he can in the world, and if I had a choice of acquaintance between a sugar-baker and a peer, I should prefer the peer, — unless, indeed, the sugar-baker had something very strong on his side to offer. I don't call that tuft-hunting, and it does not necessitate toadying. It's simply growing up, towards the light, as the trees do.

CHAPTER LXI THE SUCCESS OF LADY AUGUSTUS

Anthony Trollope

The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.

El que quiera el fin tiene que querer también los medios.

I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.

she apprehended the rare purity of accomplishment which brought no personal gain.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings; the humble, his blessings.

Jesus," said my father, when I called to tell him I'd been hired to write for The New Yorker. "Well, nowhere to go but down.