Quotes About Achievement

As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal - something we are to become - some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.

When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.

Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

I like winning, it just takes longer

I also knew that I was on my way to becoming the worst athlete in the history of American boyhood.

Success is the best revenge

The best revenge is massive success

The bigger the hill you climb, The more you can see from the top, The more you enjoy the ride down, And the longer the ride lasts.

Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.

I'm thrilled with the person I'm becoming.

In my opinion it is unwise to judge a young man by his school record. We have too many examples of bad students becoming distinguished men, and, on the other hand, of brilliant students not being at all remarkable in life.

Artists copy the pictures of those they admire, those they aspire to, acknowledged masters whose work embodies everything they hope to achieve

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Count the day won when, turning on its axis, This earth imposes no additional taxes.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is for you to rest on them.

Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Mead stresses the universality of male competition, stating that "in every known human society, the male's need for achievement can be recognized." Men, to feel fulfilled and successful, need to excel at something—to be better at it than other men and better than women.13

Como el color es el signo exterior mas visible de la raza, se convierte en el criterio y en el angulo bajo el que se juzga a los hombres sin tener en cuenta sus logros educativos y sociales. Las razas de piel clara han llegado a despreciar a las razas de piel oscura y estas Ultimas se nie­gan a consentir por mas tiempo esa condici6n subordinada que les pretenden imponer

humility in the face of the unattainable, as well as unease in the face of achievement, are both prerequisites for any mastery in life.

Il pessimismo non serve a nulla, è la malattia dei parassiti e degli inconcludenti. Abbiamo dalla nostra la volontà, e questo è l'essenziale. Perciò avremo successo.»