Quotes About Achievement

We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

Glen Johnson

Una mujer, para que se la reconozca como escritora, pintora, investigadora o lo que sea, tiene que hacer veinte veces más que un hombre, tiene que ser una fuera de serie. No hay apenas mujeres reconocidas en ninguna profesión, pero el mundo está lleno de célebres hombres mediocres.

Mantenerse en estado optimista las veinticuatro horas del día es un hecho heroico que nadie ensalza y a mí me llena de orgullo de tarde en tarde.

In short, his entire life became a race against the natural—and he was winning.

In Linden Hills they could forget that the world said you spelled black with a capital nothing. Well, they were something and there was everything around them to show it. The world hadn't given them anything but the chance to fail -- and they hadn't failed, because they were in Linden Hills. They had a thousand years and a day to sit right there and forget what it meant to be black, because it meant working yourself to death just to stand still.

Welcome to the world of Cahills. If it isn't impossible, it isn't worth doing.

Gordon Korman

How can Luthor win without you?" asked the woman from the Canine Chronicle. "Because he is the best dog by many levels of magnitude.

and me. A YouTube

Then, in front of the entire Manhattan Coliseum, the winning handler at Global wrapped her arms around Griffin and kissed him.

have done it. I'm not that stupid." The sad part is that Mr. Solway can't find his Medal of

We're on the roof of the Serenity Plastics Works—the highest point of our universe for our entire lives. Every time you look up, there it is. Eli puts it into words. "This must be how it felt to stand on the summit of Mount Everest for the first time.

GORDON KORMAN wrote his first book at age fourteen

All I can think of is that this makes me the greatest seventh-grade president in the history of student government.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is high expectations.

Bay Area Weekly just named me Silicon Valley's Number One Spoiled Brat. Remember, we're talking about California. Think of all the other spoiled brats I had to beat out for that title. Vlad always says I should aim for the best.

All you do is complain. At least you got picked for something. The last time I got picked for something? Third grade. Hall monitor. Got so nervous I threw up, slipped in my own barf, and broke my wrist.

The calendar appears in my mind, that magical date in June circled in gold Sharpie. Only 172 more school days to go.

You can't get the water to clear up until you get the pigs out of the creek. One

That was the day I felt gooder about myself than I'd ever had. I hadn't been much

A DRIVEN PERSON IS GRATIFIED (AND GRATIFIED TEMPORARILY) ONLY BY ACCOMPLISHMENT.

Philosophically speaking, values are the termini of our intentions. We never fully achieve them.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.