Quotes About Achievement

You like to win." She took a sip from her glass. "And forcing yourself on me would mean you failed in your conquest.

Some part of me is still convinced it's a fluke and eventually it will be ripped away from me. Deep down I expect it. Any hint of it and I roll down the cliff.

Some people simply live to prove to others that they have more.

We worked very hard to move out of House Rogan's shadow and I won't trade that independence for an easy paycheck.

The point of having a castle isn't hiding inside its walls; it's being worthy of it.

The march of mathematics is pursued on a broad and magnificent highway, which the latest posterity shall frequent without fear of danger or impediment.

Con las piedras que con duro intento los críticos te lanzan, bien puedes erigirte un monumento.

You are to be proud of your enemy; then, the success of your enemy is your success also

AparÈ›ineau acelei clase din marea burghezie francez? care prefera s?-È™i vad? copiii f?r? pâine, f?r? carne È™i aer decât f?r? diplome...

All the effort which he had put into making himself seemed vanity now that there were no more purposes

In this connection I must mention too a not altogether rational idea which I had nourished more or less vaguely for a long time: the notion that before I could achieve greatness as a writer I would have to pass through some ordeal . For this ordeal I had waited in vain. Even total war (I was never in uniform) failed to ruffle my life. I seemed doomed to quietness.

This was everything that I wanted to be done with, the relaxed banality of life without goals.

He notes the depressing haste with which the successful, in the sexual sphere as in all others, segment themselves from the failures.

The games are always been played, and no one plays the games like me. You just have to be the best. And I usually am.

you were better making history than studying it.

I haven't felt that good since Archie Gemmill scored against Holland in 1978 -Mark Renton

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Many times in your life you may think you are failing, but ultimately you will express yourself and that expression will justify your life.

You know, Nabby, there's mighty few pleasures in life to equal doing one's job. It is an act of love… -p. 131

What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.

It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests. Can you understand that? Can you understand that in averting the pitfalls and miseries that beset man, Eternity prevents men from finding their own bitter and better solutions, the real solutions that come from conquering difficulty, not avoiding it?

What would you consider a good job? Answered as follows: A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money. When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be given an A+, for he had perfectly articulated the American dream of those who despise knowledge. What a politician that kid would have made.

I've seen many people with status, but I'm still looking for a happy one. Status won't sit still under you; you have to continually fight to keep from sinking.