Quotes About Achievement

Descobrira,sem o saber,uma lei que rege a Humanidade e que é:para que um homem ou um rapaz cobice uma cobice uma coisa,basta tornar essa coisa difícil de obter.

Un pauvre garçon qui n'avait rien d'autre à proposer alla jusqu'à dire, avec une fierté manifeste à ce souvenir : « Eh bien, moi, une fois, Tom Sawyer m'a battu ! »

On je otkrio veliki zakon ljudske delatnosti, iako nije bio svestan toga svoga otkri?a. Taj zakon glasi: ako ho?eš da ti ?ovek ili de?ko svim srcem žudi za ne?im, u?ini samo da se to teško postiže.

Senza rendersene conto, aveva scoperto una legge importantissima che regola l'agire umano: e cioè che per indurre un uomo o un ragazzo a desiderare qualcosa, basta far sì che quella cosa risulti difficile da ottenere.

Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow actually responsible.

But my biggest joy and best education and proudest achievement has been being able to show up for work and life and not cause too much trouble a day at a time in spite of my hysterical, somewhat dramatic, nature.

The other day a patient told me that he had gotten into what was a very good college. 'It's not Harvard,' he said. 'Harvard's not Harvard either,' I answered.

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

A happy person with decent self-esteem wouldn't bother to have credentials as good as mine.

But he does seem to have leveled out, not exactly achieving some sublime moment of clarity but at least attaining a certain degree of self-control.

And to tell you the truth I was never sure I was going to make it until I finally did.

Breaking my neck was the best thing that ever happened to me. I have an Olympic medal. I've been to so many countries I would never have been, met so many people I would never have met. I've done more in the chair, ... than a whole hell of a lot of people who aren't in chairs.

She was a girl with a mountain to climb.

It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.

Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it.

I've come to the realization that I really only want to write books that maybe I can't write.

She did not produce it easily, but when it came, she had a starving smile.

If you're optimistic, think of it as bronze.

The last words of Max Vandenburg - You've done enough.

having conquered not only the work at hand, but the

moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.

He'd wanted to show his past tormentor what he was capable of, but he also wanted to prove himself to everyone. Now everyone was in the kitchen.

Jesse Owens?" Mr. Steiner was the type of man who was very wooden. His voice was angular and true. His body was tall and heavy, like oak. His hair was like splinters. "What about him?

maybe everyone can live beyond what their capable of