Quotes About Achievement

I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.

A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit.

Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Looks like Kelsey wins the award for early riser. And doesn't she look purtier than a pat of butter meltin' all over a stack of griddle cakes?

Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

All great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

Anything that comes easy may not be worth it.

When we reach our highest potential, we will find our highest love.

It's true that: No pain, no gain. The harder one works, the better the results. I have worked very hard to have you and I promise to retain you forever.

Es mucho trabajo, pero hay recompensas en el hecho de que podamos dar tanta felicidad.

If America can go on breeding men like that, she will be a power in the world indeed.

Sometimes powerful magic is accomplished by simple means.

You are my only accomplishment.

of taking what life gave her, she should take what she wanted from life.

A lot of that criticism stems from jealousy, don't you agree? People have a hard time accepting someone who soars so high. Someone who dares to break all the rules.

She bemoaned the fact that we didn't seem to be at a point anymore when being extremely good at something—and getting rewarded for that talent with attention, respect and money—was even regarded as possible.

A strategy is only as good as the steps you take to execute it.

all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins"?17

The path of human destiny is not level, but fraught with high summits and deep chasms. —the Azhar Book

Some say a person can accomplish anything she likes, if she applies herself, but that's just an empty platitude. You can't actually do 'anything,' but if you apply yourselves, you will discover strengths that others don't have. You'll surprise people who don't expect it of you." She lowered her voice. "And that is how you become powerful.

Those who seek fame and glory are least qualified to possess it.

Don't think about what you could have done, concentrate on what you plan to do; it is more useful.

Saro was breathing like a bellows, still hard on her opponent's heels. At the sound of Bragoon's whistle, Saro summoned up all her energy and put on a massive burst of speed. As the finishing line loomed up, Springald set her eyes dead ahead, racing wildly for it. Saro made a mighty leap. She sailed up and over, passing above the startled mousemaid's head, to land beyond the line, half a pace ahead, right beside Brother Weld, who roared out, "Saro wins!

If you treat every day as a battle against yourself, then you can succeed every day and be the victor.