Quotes About Achievement

When you have a child, you get a surge of ambition, or a surge of hormonal urgency, to get something done, something worthy of your new station in life.

What does it mean to be a great poet? It means that you wrote one or two great poems. Or great parts of poems. That's all it means. Don't try to picture the waste or it will alarm you.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

Well, you live your life the way you want, I live mine the way I want. We see who makes it farther.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

Our dreams need time and physical means and painstaking thought before they can be realized.

Glory is a poison, good to be taken only in small doses.

Make another failure like that ... and you'll be immortal.

Well, gold contains all things in embryo; gold realizes all things for us.

Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.

I tell ye it was some work for me to get the knack o' readin'; but when it come it come!

There have been only two geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. But, darling, I think you'd better put Shakespeare first.

What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?

I sucked a lot of breasts to get where I am today.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

That was pretty impressive. I got the sucker! (after killing a miserable fly during an interview)

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.