Quotes About Achievement

he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood.

If any one judge it hard that men should be made with ambitions to whose objects they can never attain, I answer, ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration; and no man ever followed the truth, which is the one path of aspiration, and in the end complained that he had been made this way or that.

Nothing is so ruinous to progress in which effort is needed, as satisfaction with apparent achievement. It always stops momentum.

man when I see one – and he was the best.7

about him, and that all the signs were that he

Vicisti, O Aspidistra!

While freely conceding that the Soviet regime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and that the rigors which the Russian people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement.

He found the original sheet of paper and scored the couplet out with thick lines. And in doing this there was a sense of achievement, of time not wasted, as though the destruction of much labour were in some way an act of creation.

When one does get any credit in this life, it is usually for something that one has not done.

For years i had been resolved - unconsciously at first, but consciously later on - that when once my scholarship was won i would 'slack off' and cram no longer. This resolve, by the way, was so fully carried out that between the ages of thirteen and twenty-two or three i hardly ever did a stroke of avoidable work.

Ad Astra per Aspera—through rough ways to the stars

The pair adopted the phrase Ad Astra per Aspera—through rough ways to the stars—as their motto.

It has seemed to me that if I had the genius to found the jet propulsion field in the US, and found a multimillion dollar corporation and a world renowned research laboratory, then I should also be able to apply this genius in the magical field.

How could a college dropout find himself, at the age of twenty-six, a government-funded rocket scientist?

Willpower is but the unflinching purpose to carry a task you set for yourself to fulfillment. If I set for myself a task, be it ever so trifling, I shall see it through. How else should I have the confidence in myself to do important things?

Si aprende a fijarse un pequeño deseo bien definido, ello lo llevará a fijarse otro más grande.

One may not condemn a man for succeeding because he knows how.

Even at such labor did I myself earn my first coppers. Therefore, thou hast the same opportunity to build a fortune.

Money is the medium by which earthly success is measured. Money makes possible the enjoyment of the best the earth affords.

En aquellas cosas hacia las cuales dirigimos nuestros mejores esfuerzos, tenemos éxito.

Thus the seventh and last remedy for a lean purse is to cultivate thy own powers, to study and become wiser, to become more skillful, to so act as to respect thyself. Thereby shalt thou acquire confidence in thy self to achieve thy carefully considered desires.

El deseo debe preceder a la realización. Vuestros deseos tienen que ser fuertes y bien definidos. Los deseos vagos no son más que débiles deseos.

I not only made back as much as I lost, but much more.

Through my misfortunes, my trials and my success