Quotes About Achievement

Success is a relative thing?and the victory of a boy at marbles is equal to the victory of an Octavius at Actium when measured by the scale of cosmic infinity.

When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

Proving himself to himself was no small matter.

He adored competing but didn't want you to know he'd ever worked at it.

Finish: Even if you run a slower than expected time, you succeed in any marathon when you finish.

after you've been running for several years and begin to shave seconds instead of minutes off your PRs, or if you start to slip backward, it is time to turn to speedwork.

It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more.

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The most remarkable thing about man's dreams is that they all come true; this has always been the case, though no one would care to admit it. And a peculiarity of man's behaviour is that he is not in the least surprised when his dreams do come true; it is as if he had always expected nothing else. The goal to be reached and the determination to reach it are brother and sister, and slumber both in the same heart.

I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure.

It is only the insane who achieve anything significant.

And you'd get point A followed by points B and C, and on the one hand F, and on the other foot G, until you could see the whole alphabet stretching ahead, each letter a Sahara in itself to be crawled across

The task and potential greatness of mortals lie in their ability to produce things works and deeds and words which would deserve to be and, at least to a degree, are at home in everlastingness, so that through them mortals could find their place in a cosmos where everything is immortal except themselves.

While the "women just want to have consequence-free sex" anti-contraceptive argument is often trotted out by latter-day social conservatives, such a view is a cruel and misogynist oversimplification. A more realistic assessment of the struggle for effective contraception would be to see it as the struggle to achieve some level of control over the single most dangerous, resource-intensive, and biologically crucial activity in which human beings regularly engage.

Hans Christian Andersen

But if the star should set, even while I am penning these lines, be it so; still I can say it has shone, and I have received a rich portion.

Laura Ingalls Wilder. She published the first book in the Little House on the Prairie series at age sixty-five.

I don't know if I believe in talent. People keep saying to me, 'Oh he's really talented,' or this woman is an 'amazing talent.' And then when I investigate a little bit further, it turns out it's just somebody who works really, really hard.

Don't Tell Me the Sky's the Limit When There Are Footprints on the Moon

There are two people in a tennis match. One ends up winning, one ends up losing. And I think the pleasure comes not from winning. I think the pleasure comes from beating someone." She scrunched up her face like a very puzzled child. "Why is that something we admire? We call them winners, but when you think about it, they really get off on making someone else lose. Why is that something we admire so much?" "That's

You'd just turned pro. Adolescent boys hung your poster in their bedrooms. You were supposed to beat legends right away. Your parents redefined pushy. It's a miracle you stayed upright.

Do all these things so you can matriculate at the most prestigious school possible. It's like the first seventeen years of your life are just an audition for the Ivy Leagues." It

He put his foot up on the lowest bench, leaned onto his knee, and took a few seconds to scan our faces. "I believe in all of you. I believe in this team. And I believe we can still achieve great things this season." Absolute silence. "Okay