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Quotes About Achievement

The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.
~ Mary Shelley
After so much time spent in painful labor, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.
~ Mary Shelley
Do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose. My life might have passed in ease and luxury; but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path.
~ Mary Shelley
So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein--more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.
~ Mary Shelley
I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.
~ Mary Shelley
Seek Happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. Yet why do I say this? I have myself been blasted in these hopes, yet another may succeed.
~ Mary Shelley
Success shall crown my endeavors. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
~ Mary Shelley
I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Seek happiness in tranquillity, and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
new species would bless me as its creator and source, many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I trod heaven in my thoughts, now exulting in my powers, now burning with the idea of their effects.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
when the masters of the science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand:
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Ii isn't thet if you become Hokage, everyone will acknowldege you. It's the ones who are acknowledged that can become Hokage.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Someone with inborn talent isn't happy. It's those who have worked hard for someone precious to them and who can be hot-blooded that are happy. -Gai Sensei: Naruto Episode 196
~ Masashi Kishimoto
I was raised on ramen and hard work!
~ Masashi Kishimoto
In order to escape a road of solitude, one has to work hard, and forge a new path with their own power!
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Still, KGB staff in Dresden had to scrimp and save to ensure that at the end of their posting they would have something to show for it.
~ Masha Gessen
According to the brain-centered model of exercise performance, a runner achieves his race goal when his brain calculates that achieving the race goal is possible without catastrophic self-harm.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
What happens when you're comfortable is that you end up getting deeper and deeper into a "good" life that prevents you from living a great life and accomplishing what you really dream about.
~ Matt Morris
Create 3 or 4 stories that include the 10 steps above. If you already have a few stories, improve on them and make sure they have the 10 steps in them.
~ Matt Morris
There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.   —Nelson Mandela
~ Matt Morris (1)
A month after the Watson-Crick structure was published, Britain crowned a new queen and a British expedition conquered Mount Everest on the same day. Apart from a small piece in the News Chronicle, the double helix did not make the newspapers. Today most scientists consider it the most momentous discovery of the century, if not the millennium.
~ Matt Ridley