Quotes About Achievement

specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

He saw Hercules in the movie theater time after time, hour after hour, examining Park, judging him, admiring him, and, ultimately, promising himself that one day he, Arnold Schwarzenegger, then thirteen years old and poor as he was, would be like him, would even surpass Reg Park.

The harder something is to acquire, the more satisfying it is when you finally find it.

She closes her eyes. "I can't believe he peed in that potty.

The jewel in the crown

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You can't really blame folks for thinking you might be disappointed," Henry replied. "You have to watch the Harmonicandy get all the glory. Under your own roof, no less! And after you'd worked so hard on your Bubbletastic ChocoRocket.

Abashed, should assumed its place in the list of what could be accomplished, what couldn't.

The sages advise us to study Torah lishma-"for its own sake" rather than to impress others with our scholarship. A paradox of parenting is that if we love our children for their own sake rather than for their achievements, it's more likely that they will reach their true potential.

A Hasidic teaching says, "If your child has a talent to be a baker, don't tell him to be a doctor." Judaism holds that every child is made in the divine image. When we ignore a child's intrinsic strengths in an effort to push him toward our notion of extraordinary achievement, we are undermining God's plan.

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And I suppose in a way you have to hand it to the ex-East End orphan named Lily Shiel. Just what to hand her, I'd be hard put to say.

I always felt like whatever I achieved - grades, salaries, promotions, even my wife and children - was a mistake. Like I had somehow fooled everyone into thinking I was worthy of what they'd given me.

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

Somehow she'd clabbered together a series of student loans to get her undergraduate degree at Boston College. Her graduation gift to herself was a new name and a new city.

Madeline Singer had recently achieved two things that surprised her: a senior citizen discount; and the legal right to date.

And remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did. Only she did it backwards and in heels.

I got my first driver's license in Michigan when I turned twelve.

She wrote for years, one book after another, just trying to get somewhere. At one point, despite all the roadblocks her publisher put in her way, she hit the New York Times list and got a multimillion dollar contract with another publisher.

If we are in the right situation, we can achieve similar results to those who are more disciplined. Even if we don't have "it" at a young age, we can arrange our world in a way that enables our success