Quotes About Achievement

Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.

If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream.

Tirza, his youngest daughter, the one who turned out best. Turned out wonderfully, both inside and out.

Mountains are the means, the man is the end. The goal is not to reach the top of the mountains, but to improve the man.

A hundred failures would not matter, when one single success could change the destiny of the world.

Everybody on this island has one ambition, which may be summed up very simply. It is to do something, however small it may be, better than anyone else. Of course, it's an ideal we don't all achieve. But in this modern world the great thing is to have an ideal. Achieving it is considerably less important.

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped towards new ends.

Yet if there were no hazards there would be no achievement, no sense of adventure.

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

Jan had always been a good pianist—and now he was the finest in the world.

And just fifty years had separated the Wright Brothers from the first jet airliners.

like everything that was worth doing, that would take time and practice.

No need to go to the dolphins," interjected Max Brailovsky. "One of the brightest engineers in my class was fatally attracted to a blonde in Kiev. When I heard of him last, he was working in a garage. And he'd won a gold medal for designing space-stations. What a waste!

I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.

He had reached the position where neither personal possessions nor official ceremony could add anything to his stature.

A hundred failures would not matter, when a single success could change the destiny of the world.

It still seemed incredible that one man could have done so much with such primitive equipment. But Cook had been not only a supreme navigator, but also a scientist and—in an age of brutal discipline—a humanitarian. He treated his own men with kindness, which was unusual; what was quite unheard of was that he behaved in exactly the same way to the often hostile savages in the new lands he discovered.

Ignorance, disease, poverty, and fear had virtually ceased to exist.

throughout the flight, but there

He felt no regrets as the work of a lifetime was swept away. He had labored to take man to the stars, and, in the moment of success, the stars—the aloof, indifferent stars—had come to him.

We can be sure of talent; We can only pray for genius

THERE IS A special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped towards new ends. Alvin knew that sadness as he wandered alone through the forests and fields of Lys. Not even Hilvar accompanied him, for there are times when a man must be apart even from his closest friends. He

I've come a billion miles - I don't want to be stopped by the last sixty

once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization…