Quotes About Achievement

Four hundred is a lot. When I was young, I remember Kapil Dev getting it, and it was quite a big thing. An Indian had taken it. I feel honoured and proud that God has given me a chance to reach 400 wickets. It's a big thing for me; I don't know about others.

I can't believe all this is happening to me, but I am definitely here to stay. And I am happy to be in Indian cinema.

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down.... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.

Projects are not goals in themselves. Projects are how goals are achieved. People don't build skyscrapers, hold conferences, develop products, or write books for their own sakes. They do these things in order to accomplish other things.

Projects are not goals in themselves. Projects are how goals are achieved. People don't build skyscrapers

Virtue is the effort, the conquest of a difficulty, leaving, as its results, a balance of happiness. There may be, there is much good in the world, which no virtue has been concerned in producing. But there is no virtue where there is no balance of happiness.

My cruel fate hath warr'd with me in vain Life, glory, worth, and all unmeasur'd skill Beauty and grace, themselves in me fulfill That many I surpass, and to the best attain.

Success is relative. The more success, the more relatives.

To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.

There is no single, correct objective in mountaineering; there are only possibilities. One of them leads beyond the impossible. - Reinhold Messner

A failed attempt on a virgin face of an eight thousander gives me much more than the successful ascent of a known route.

First colonized by Sir Humphrey Gilbert, half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, in 1583, St John's has ever since been an important outpost of the Americas. Home port of the vast Grand Banks cod fishing fleet, it was here, on Signal Hill, that Marconi received the first transatlantic wireless message in 1901, and from here Alcock and Brown took off to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919.

Success is often only a revenge on happiness

The far you've come from estimates twice your destination

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go—if there are no doors or windows—he walks through a wall.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows--he walks through a wall.

Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far it is we can go.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

There are two terrible things for a man: not to have fulfilled his dream, and to have fulfilled it.

The stronger the enemy, the more we must surpass ourselves

others were showing off the jobs they'd got, the boyfriends who'd proposed, the babies on the way, the countless nights on the lash where they'd had the best time of their lives clubbing-partying-festivalling-getting-drunk-high and being happyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappy, with complexions filtered to perfection

It was so odd seeing a stage full of black women tonight, all of the as dark or darker than her, a first, although rather than feel validated, she felt slightly embarrassed. If only the play was about the first black woman prime minister of Britain, or a Nobel prize-winner for science, or a self-made billionaire, someone who represented legitimate success at the highest levels, instead of lesbian warriors strutting around and falling for each other.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.