Quotes About Achievement

J'ai rêvé la gloire quand j'étais tout enfant, et maintenant je n'ai même plus l'orgueil de la médiocrité.

Qu'importent nos ennuis, nos défaillances, la lenteur d'exécution et le dégoût de l'oeuvre ensuite, si nous sommes toujours en progrès  ! Si nous montons, qu'importe le but  ! Si nous galopons, qu'importe l'auberge  ! Ce perpétuel malaise n'est-il pas une garantie de délicatesse, une preuve de foi  !

I no em vull referir a aquesta intel·ligència superficial, ornament balder dels esperits ociosos, ans a aquesta intel·ligència profunda i modera que s'aplica, per damunt de tot, a la consecució de coses útils.

He remembers with disdain the ignorance of other days, the mediocrity of his dreams. And now those luminous globes he was wont to gaze upon from below are close to him!

A la fi, pensarien a situar-la: li trobarien algun xicot de posició assegurada; la faria feliç.

El genio lo da Dios, pero el talento es cosa nuestra; con una inteligencia recta, amor a lo que se hace y una paciencia sin desfallecimientos, se llega a tenerlo

received the cross of the Legion of Honour.

Emma se sentí satisfeta interiorment creient que havia assolit d'un sol cop aquell rar ideal propi de les existències pàl·lides al qual els cors mediocres no podran arribar mai.

I drink to the victory of the mind over the millions.

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we are not here on earth to change our destiny but to fulfill it.

Good enough is good enough. There is time for refinement later. It's not how great you start—it's how great you end up.

There is no shortcut to awesome. Zoe Winters

What gets measured gets done.

If you are successful, someday you'll have a hard time even remembering what year you launched. If you are unsuccessful, it won't matter.

Embrace the inspiration of people's success.

We broke through.

Yeah, I should be in college, Mom, but I'm not. The world is my classroom, and one day I'll write a book, and that will be my degree.

Lo logramos!

He explained that when he had gotten to Toledo, he had a meeting with himself. He said he realized he had become satisfied with being a starting pitcher in the big leagues, and with the money he was making.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved, which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

He believed that there was need in the world for a class freed from the handicap of law and morality, a class acutely adaptable and immoral; a class bent on achieving, not the equality of all men, but the production, at the top, of the superman.

Looking back over a life of hard work… my only regret is that I didn't work even harder.