Quotes About Achievement

Smallpox has been wiped out worldwide.

There's only the integrity of doing and having done.

That's my clever girl.

its key components are action and practice, which in turn prompt success, which refuels motivation. Figure

Often, it is the least likely among us who is in a position to accomplish the most.

out because now and then we get exactly what we want.

There are always obstacles to the things we want most, Drisker Arc, but we don't need to dwell on them. We need to make them disappear!

True or False? The delusion that doing well in school will win me love has disfigured my life. Discuss in 5-7 pages.

Deserve Victory

There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going to amount to anything. You will always be the worthless muck people scrape from their shoes. You only get one life and you are wasting yours. That's a terrible shame. I doubt you will ever know what it is to be truly happy, to achieve anything of worth, to have genuine pride in yourself. You bring it all on yourself, and I could do no worse to you.

There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.

Standing there, chisel and mallet in hand, gazing at the statue that was his vision in stone, was a moment when Richard could savor the supreme achievement of having his creation exist exactly as he had originally conceived it. For this singular moment in time, it was complete, and it was his alone.

your own individual life is the value and its own end, and what you achieve is yours. "Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of slavery.

what is commonly thought luck is often merely the result of incessant practice.

Not my best work, but it's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

You could die this day, so you should strive to do your best while you still lived. - Richard Cypher Rahl

make a nice life for

The university had a new Managing Director, whose greatest achievement had been to change his title from 'The Principal' to 'The Managing Director'.

What it takes is real hard work. Ain't nobody gon' give you nothing in this world unless you work for it.

it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world to give it to you, no matter the price, and the price is and always will be high... People say you don't find witchcraft; witchcraft finds you. But you've found it, even if at the time you didn't know what it was you were finding, and you grabbed it by its scrawny neck and made it work for you.

For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works.

Never promise to do the possible. Anyone could do the possible. You should promise to do the impossible, because sometimes the impossible was possible, if you could find the right way, and at least you could often extend the limits of the possible. And if you failed, well, it had been impossible.

I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it's so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.