Quotes About Achievement

In 1922 everything changed again. The Eskimo pie was invented; James Joyce's Ulysses was printed in Paris; snow fell on Mauna Loa, Hawaii; Babe Ruth signed a three-year contract with the New York Yankees; Eugene O'Neill was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Frederick Douglass's home was dedicated as a national shrine; former heavyweight champion of the world Jack Johnson invented the wrench...

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

When we stand together there is nothing, nothing, nothing we cannot accomplish.

I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

My ambition is to hit .400 and talk 1.000.

a person has to go through a lot of pain to get to comfort!

Why be a man when you can be a success.

Who built the seven towers of Thebes? The books are filled with the names of kings. Was it kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone?... In the evening when the Chinese wall was finished Where did the masons go?...

I take it that the intent of science is to ease human existence. If you give way to coercion, science can be crippled, and your new machines may simply suggest new drudgeries. Should you, then, in time, discover all there is to be discovered, your progress must become a progress away from the bulk of humanity. The gulf might even grow so wide that the sound of your cheering at some new achievement would be echoed by a universal howl of horror.

Every page a victory. Who cooked the feast for the victors? Every ten years a great man. Who paid the bill?

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

Humans are queer. A man, living and well, is ignored or criticized. Dying or dead, he is noticed and praised. Death sheds a temporary glamour over the poorest soul. It is as though in dying, he has accomplished something which life never gave him.

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

On another note - Sarton writes about "people in their thirties mourning their lost youth because we have given them no ethos that makes maturity appear an asset." I very much feel this to be true. Turning twenty-one is the nadir of American achievement, one can get smashed legally, and as there are no further milestones after that, each succeeding birthday reeks of diminishment. People start to lie about their age, as if maturity is a thing to be ashamed of.

and remember: There's no crying in pie baking. -The Bake-Off

Writing a novel is hard work but it feels great to have the printed copy in my hand. Tonight I celebrate with the Laneway Press team who have helped me so very much. Prepare for the popping of corks!

I don't need easy, I just need possible.

Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed.

Note to self: finding a cool quote and writing it in your journal is not a substitute for Getting. It. Done.

No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.