Quotes About Achievement

You don't just luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

You don't just luck into things...You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

No credit given for all the extra miles that take you nowhere.

You make cheese yourself, she repeated reverently. You are a real housewife. It has taken me decades to get here, but I took that as a compliment.

I became determined to know a few steps more of that path every day.

Enrique felt a successful man needed no imagination at all.

At sunrise it always seems like you've got a good crack at getting everything done, but at sunset you know that you didn't.

but born in the mobile home, so that's like the Eagle Scout of trailer trash.

But he went right back to it, trying again. He would do this over and over until he had it, and today or tomorrow he would walk. Willa remembered all this. She'd watched her kids master these first small tasks with an application of effort that seemed superhuman, but of course it only amounted to being human, a story written in genes. First they would stagger, then grow competent, and then forget the difficulty altogether while thinking of other things, and that was survival.

Nowadays, people wanted to tell you class didn't exist and color didn't matter anymore. Look at Miss America and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But Miss America and the chairman were no more black people than Mother Teresa was white people. Men like Nate and women like her were the people, the folks, the mud from which the rest were made. It was their hands and blood and sweat that had built everything, from the North Carolina governor's mansion to the first stoplight.

why would it? He had won, and

Barbara Taylor Bradford

He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind

The Doughroaster resents the idea of people being able to stand on the top of a mountain without ever having been able to climb up there. Seems like cheating somehow.

Sometimes, you have to remind yourself the perfect is the enemy of the good.

It seemed he'd recently learned the value of playing up the difficulty of accomplishing whatever he was tasked with, the better to play the hero when he subsequently pulled it off. He was overusing the technique the way a child overuses a new word.

A turtle doesn't get up on a bookshelf by itself

Well, if anybody ever compiles a list of the high-water marks of human cleverness, I'm afraid that's unlikely to merit consideration.

John O'Hara's novel.

Barry Eisler

fait accompli

And one can better understand figures in arctic exploration so obsessed with their own achievement that they found it irksome to acknowledge the Eskimos, unnamed companions, and indefatigable dogs who helped them.