Quotes About Achievement

And if I'll see you smile with admiration at a new copper smelter that I built, it will be another form of what I felt when I lay in bed beside you. Will I want to sleep with you? Desperately. Will I envy the man who does? Sure. But what does that matter? It's so much—just to have you here, to love you and to be alive.

El camino queda expedito -dijo-. Hemos de regresar al mundo. Y levantando la mano sobre la desolada tierra, trazó en el espacio el signo del dólar.

There is no such thing as 'the public interest' except as the sum of the interests of individual men. And the basic, common interest of all men—all rational men—is freedom. Freedom is the first requirement of 'the public interest'—not what men do when they are free, but that they are free. All their achievements rest on that foundation—and cannot exist without it.

Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.

I think perhaps education doesn't do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it's just 8th grade ... An 8th-grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!

It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Yes we can!

And to all those who have wondered if Americas beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope. For that is the true genius of America - that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.

the big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy ... betrays a poverty of ambition.

The people back home, they didn't even know anyone else who had ridden in an airplane before. So they expected everything from him. 'Ah, Barack, you are a big shot now. You should give me something. You should help me.' Always these pressures from family. And he couldn't say no, he was so generous. You

I'm getting the Nobel Peace Prize." "That's wonderful, honey," she said, then rolled over to get a little more shut-eye.

To the furniture worker's child in North Carolina who wants to become a doctor or a scientist, an engineer or an entrepreneur, a diplomat or even a president -- that's the future we hope for. That's the vision we share. That's where we need to go -- forward

Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies, I tell my daughters—and at least that was true for me at Harvard.

None of These Will Come Easy.

if you're thinking: 'Am I succeeding? Am I in the right position? Am I being appreciated?' — then you're going to end up feeling frustrated and stuck. But if you can keep it about the work, you'll always have a path. There's always something to be done.

about had made American life a hell of a lot better.

Then suddenly a shot of my face flashed up on the TV screen and ABC News announced that I would be the forty-fourth president of the United States.

important it is to stay focused on your goals rather than getting hung up on the daily ups and downs.

It was the America of Thomas Edison and the Wright brothers, making dreams take flight, and Jackie Robinson stealing home. It was Chuck Berry and Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday at the Village Vanguard and Johnny Cash at Folsom State Prison—all those misfits who took the scraps that others overlooked or discarded and made beauty no one had seen before.

Confidence. The secret to a man's success.

Later, you add to that definition: making money. How much money can you make?

there's a direct link between doing your work and having your wishes come true.

No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something.