Quotes About Achievement

The reward for toil had been more toil. If you dug the best ditches, they gave you a bigger shovel.

Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.

If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won.

Don't wish , Miss Tick had said. Do things.

There was a bond, you see, when we were both young, but she wanted to be the best of all witches and I hoped one day to be Archchancellor. Alas for us, our dreams came true.

Against one perfect moment, the centuries beat in vain.

First you get the test, and then afterwards you spend years findin' out how you passed it.

The point is not to avoid the war, it is to win it.

The price for being the best is always... having to be the best.

They sometimes forgot what happened if you let a pawn get all the way up the board.

And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up.

As every student of exploration knows, the prize goes not to the explorer who first sets foot upon the virgin soil but to the one who gets that foot home first. If it is still attached to his leg, this is a bonus.

once you have a dream you've got somewhere closer to a reality.

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

It meant that Crowley had been allowed to develop Manchester, while Aziraphale had a free hand in the whole of Shropshire. Crowley took Glasgow, Aziraphale had Edinburgh (neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes,* but both reported it as a success).

he'd experienced the lovely warm feeling of a bad job well done.

The way I see it, my ancestors put a lot of effort into getting out of the goddamn ocean and I don't think I should throw all of that hard work back in their faces.

a school's worth should be measured not by how its students perform on standardized tests but by how well they function as adult graduates of the school...

At that moment we knew that as long as we used our brains, we were not victims. By striking out to write our own ticket, we would grow up to be like our mother, winners.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. Nikola Tesla

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the simple idea that behaviors drive results.