Quotes About Achievement

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

The greatest satisfaction comes from mastering something that is truly difficult.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

You can have it all, just not all at the same time.

I was almost to the top, so I took a deep breath, and grabbed onto the edge of the desk. Then I PULLED-PULLED-PULLED myself up and there I was, sitting on top of the tall desk along with stacks of books, a telephone, a computer and several pencils.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

We do not go to school to be a success, we go to school to learn to hopefully be a success one day and if not then our plan in life lies elswhere and that is good ......

If these are the achievements of man, give me the achievements of geraniums.

If young people are exposed to images of African American academic achievement in their early years, they won't have to define school achievement as something for Whites only. They will know that there is a long history of Black intellectual achievement.

Unfortunately for Black teenagers, those cultural stereotypes do not usually include academic achievement.

Because we can't tell others about our accomplishments if we don't know them ourselves.

She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on the fine points of what a woman of the nineteenth century could achieve.

Beverly Jenkins

Another interesting aspect was my brief mention of Dr. Alexander Augusta. Born free in Virginia in 1825, he was the highest ranking Black officer in the Union Army, and went on to become the first African-American professor of medicine.

We are women, Clare. Life will hand us nothing, so sometimes we have to make life look up and acknowledge us by our deeds.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going," he'd emphasized, quoting one of his favorite Beverly Sills lines.

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

No one attains perfection by merely giving up work.