Quotes About Achievement

But how should women perform so wise and glorious an achievement, we women who dwell in the retirement of the household, clad in diaphanous garments of yellow silk and long flowing gowns, decked out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers?

Lo scopo del lavoro è quello di guadagnarsi il tempo libero.

Hay quienes no pasan de ser sólo acciones, otros además de la acción, dejan un producto.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.

It's the fastest who gets paid, and it's the fastest who gets laid.

All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

At the Olympic Games, it isn't the most beautiful or strongest who are crowned, but those who compete.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us.

W]here there are things to be done the end is not to survey and recognize the various things, but rather to do them...

Happiness, therefore, being found to be something final; and self-sufficient, is the end at which all actions aim.

If it is better to be happy as a result of one's own exertions than by the gift of fortune, it is reasonable to suppose that this is how happiness is won.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet

Excellence, much labored for by the race of mortals.

É belo morrer antes de se fazer algo digno da morte. - Anaxândrias

All those who have become eminent in philosophy or politics or poetry or the arts are clearly melancholics.

Happiness is the exercise of talent, along the lines of excellence.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

M?c tiêu lá»›n nh?t c?a ??i ng??i là s?ng Ä'úng vá»›i ti?m n?ng c?a b?n thân

We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going day in and day out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

If I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger