Quotes About Achievement

All great achievements require time.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.

Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, 'Uh oh, they're going to find out now. I've run a game on everybody and they're going to find me out.

Imagine, I might really become somebody. Someday.

Being free is as difficult and as perpetual — or rather fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good jew or a good Moslem or a good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up in the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

She said, 'No, you learned that you have power - power and determination. I love you and I am proud of you. With those two things, you can go anywhere and everywhere.

The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.

My name had lost its ring of familiarity and I had to be nudged to go and receive my diploma.

With time and a kindly librarian, any unskilled person can learn how to build a replica of the Taj Mahal.

A person must make the effort to learn, and growing is the inevitable reward of learning.

You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for.

The white kids were going to have a chance to become Galileos and Madame Curies and Edisons and Ganguins, and our boys (the girls weren't even in on it) would try to be Jesse Owenses and Joe Louises.

Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to chose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.

I have written eleven books, but each time I think, 'uh oh, they're going to find out now. I've run a game on everybody, and they're going to find me out.

Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

When he finished, more triumphant stories rainbowed around the room riding the shoulders of laughter. By all accounts these storytellers, born Black and male before the turn of the twentieth century, should have been ground into useless dust. Instead they used their intelligence to pry open the door of rejection and not only became wealthy but got some revenge in the bargain. It wasn't possible for me to regard them as criminals or be anything but proud of their achievements.

To become wondrously successful and to sustain that success in any profession, one must be willing to relinquish many pleasures and be ready to postpone gratification.

No, you learned that you have power—power and determination. I love you and I am proud of you. With those two things, you can go anywhere and everywhere.

There ain't no pay beneath the sun As sweet as rest when a job's well done. I was born to work up to my grave But I was not born To be a slave. One

My mother complimented me on my decision and said I would do wonders.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

Somewhere in my fatalism I had expected to die, accidentally, and never have the chance to walk up the stairs in the auditorium and gracefully receive my hard-earned diploma. Out of God's merciful bosom I had won reprieve.