Quotes About Achievement

how would you account for the mail Sammy drew from all over the country? From insurance companies in Hartford, from chain stores in the South, from mail-order houses in the Middle West, people were writing that I could not have written Sammy without personal knowledge of their own mail-room boy who had run over their backs to become office manager, and in some cases company president.

Orellana's achievement would later be called one of the world's greatest explorations, "something more than a journey, and more like a miraculous event.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

life is like a chess game, and I am but a mere pawn that against all odds moves forward in the face of any danger in the hope of one day becoming a greater than I am. like a pawn I only move forward towards my goal and do not under any circumstances go back or retreat. I aim at achieving excellence through hard work and dedication to the job at hand. even when all seems impossible and out of reach I believe that failure is not an option but a stepping stone towards achieving my dreams.

Being beaten by your student was the ultimate victory, for a teacher.

Is it still a victory if you don't get the credit?

The difference between success and failure in this life of ours is mostly hard work, so you must constantly work to try to improve yourself.

Lord, when shall we be done growing? As long as we have anything more to do, we have done nothing. So,now, let us add Moby Dick to our blessing, and step from that. Leviathan is not the biggest fish; I have heard of Krakens.

Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest.

eats the whale by its own light, does

I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

an outstanding engineer, an

The science books are right about potential. It's easier to lose it than to get it back.

the real achievement isn't getting out of the place where you were born to build a new identity for yourself. It's better to stay put and change the culture—genuinely transform—where you are.

There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

some day let them say of him: 'He is better by far than his father,' 480  as he comes in from the fighting

What greater glory attends a man, while he's alive, than what he wins with his racing feet and striving hands?

LeBron James

be always best in battle and pre-eminent beyond all others

Few sons are the equals of their fathers; 310  most fall short, all too few surpass them.

For few are the children who turn out to be equals of their fathers, and the greater number are worse; few are better than their father is.

Hippolocus begat me. I claim to be his son, and he sent me to Troy with strict instructions: Ever to excel, to do better than others, and to bring glory to your forebears, who indeed were very great.... This is my ancestry; this is the blood I am proud to inherit.