Quotes About Achievement

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Adams had gone to Harvard, Jefferson to William and Mary. Washington had gone to war.

In a very real sense, we are complicitous in their achievement, since we are the audience for which they were performing; knowing we would be watching helped to keep them on their best behavior.

To my wife Marganit and my children Ella Rose and Daniel Adam without whom this book would have been completed two years earlier.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

30-percent incline

Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard. You do not have to strive or slave hard.

There is no virtue in poverty.

The world's full of idiots, divas and assholes, mainly in Ireland. In Ireland, one cannot achieve anything if he is not a little wacky. That's a holy truth. It just simply cannot be otherwise.

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

every life should be a quest to achieve the goal of heaven through a growth in virtue, thereby attaining the power, through grace, to overcome the monsters and demons which seek to prevent the achievement of this paramount goal. It is in this way and with this understanding of the meaning and purpose of life that we are meant to read The Hobbit and it is in this way, and this way alone, that we find its deepest and most applicable meaning.

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

Er übertraf die Erwartungen, die er niemals auf sich gesetzt hatte

A skyscraper is the incarnate rebellion against the supposedly unattainable; against the mystery of altitude, against the otherworldliness of the cerulean.

I want you to carry this question home with you: gain such a victory, and what do you do with it?

Owl Eyes leaped onto a caterpillar, squashing it flat. "I killed it!" he announced proudly. "I can hunt!

This apprentice has show great courage.

I'm proud of you, Leopardfur," he mewed. "I always have been. I'm privileged in a way most medicine cats aren't: I am a father, and I've lived a full life. I loved being a warrior.

I bet I catch the first prey today

There was no sign of the shoulder injury that had kept Sorreltail from her warrior ceremony for so long, and no trace of bitterness that she had waited twice as long as other apprentices to receive her warrior name. Though she was older than Leafpaw, she still had all the joyful energy of a kit.

Your path has been hard, harder than most," Firestar rasped. "But you fought a great battle here, and you won. You are a worthy deputy of ThunderClan.