Quotes About Achievement

Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

You couldn't be satisfied with being an amateur asshole, could you, Jimbo! You had to go and turn pro on me!

The anti-feminism bacllash has been set off not by women's achievement of full equality but by the increased possibility that they might win it. It is a pre-emptive strike that stops women long before they reach the finishing line.

Life's not about the day when you win the prizes - it's about all the days in between. p 255

WHEN I WAS LITTLE, I was so girlie and ambitious, I was practically a drag queen. I wanted to be everything at once: a prima ballerina, an actress, a model, a famous artist, a nurse, an Ice Capades dancer, and Batgirl. I spent inordinate amounts of time waltzing around our living room with a doily on my head, imagining in great detail my promenade down the runway as the new Miss America, during which time I would also happen to receive a Nobel Prize for coloring.

Everybody thinks that once you reach the top, you can lie back on a divan with a goddamn mai tai. No. Wrong. Success is not a mountain climb. Success is a treadmill.

I had reached up and pulled the castle of dreams down around him.

Limited expectations yield only limited results.

Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.

Maybe it was the lack of stimulation that made you so productive and sort of... determined.

Boredom might be construed as the impetus for achievement rather than as an obstacle to it.

Anna was a star athlete at school, while Dawn was one of the last picks for any sporting teams. Dawn

The goal was always to keep ahead of the pain.

Victory lies not only in the end goal but in the steps of faith we take every day toward that goal.

Wyatt Marshall hadn't come all the way to Russia only to fail.

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Nothing worth having comes without a price.

School gave me wings to leave rural Pennsylvania for Philadelphia, and my diploma gave me wings to Manhattan.

The achievements of Obama's presidency, especially impressive in the face of massive opposition to every move he made, undermined the last rationalizations for white supremacy—which is just what provoked the massive backlash that led to the election of the least qualified man ever to approach the White House.

It's human nature to set a point in our minds when we feel triumphant and to measure everything that comes after it by how far we fall or rise from that point.

In 1925, a man named Harry Pidgeon completed a solo sailing trip around the world, becoming only the second person ever to do so. He had gotten the building plans for his boat and most of his nautical knowledge from books he had borrowed from the Los Angeles Public Library. His boat, The Islander, was nicknamed The Library Navigator.

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.