Quotes About Achievement

Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles Wrote his grand Å'dipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years.

He would certainly (so the observer assumed) produce excellent motor cars; he would make impressive speeches to the salesmen; but he would never love passionately, lose tragically, nor sit in contented idleness upon tropic shores.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.

Había nacido para ser grande, porque era capaz de proyectar lo que otros hombres no se atrevían a llevar a cabo, y de llevar a cabo lo que otros hombres no se atrevían a proyectar. El caso de Lady Sannox

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

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

CORO Avrà così sempre vigore oggi e in futuro, come l'aveva in passato, questa legge: mai grandezza ai mortali viene senza dolore.»

These academic guys have to feel important. They give papers and present TV programs to show they're useful and valuable. But you do useful, valuable work every day. You don't need to prove anything. How many people have you treated? Hundreds. You've reduced their pain. You've made hundreds of people happier. Has Antony Tavish made anyone happier?" I'm sure there's something wrong

What if our children are all super-bright and I can't understand what they're saying and they look down on me because I haven't got a PhD?

Stop explaining how impossible it is, stop making endless excuses, stop faffing around…and just do it!

he only looks at how hard a person works and what results they get—and not at what a completely horrible cow they are.

Full equity partnership is the highest pinnacle, way above the first rung of partnership. It's the most prestigious job in law. I never, ever, ever expected that.

Success is dependent on effort.

Without labor nothing prospers.

It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.

A man through wit May pass another's wisdom in the race.

Who could behold his greatness without envy?

Sophocles had his full share of such rewards, for we have evidence that he won the first prize at the Dionysia eighteen times, and it is recorded that he never won the third prize.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.

It is not what happens to me that makes me great, but what I do.

I can live my legacy or just have led a busy life.