Quotes About Achievement

They had a longing to move up and out, to be something bigger than they were born to.

But it's so hard, Papa... Those things that are most beneficial to us generally are. But they are also worth the effort.

Writing one page a day equals a 365 page novel in a year.

Victory,' she said, 'means peace.

One step, I thought. One step at a time.

The album we've made is much more than a book. It's worth even more than the time that it took.

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

For a moment he felt like devoting the next ten years to working his way to a position as art critic on purpose to review Bertrand's work unfavorably.

Ad Astra Per Aspera

To Whom It May Concern-- Only four words of advice: It can be done.

But if detachment is really fear of failure and hence never putting oneself to the test, or if it's fear of being hurt, humiliated or rejected, then one is closing all doors to life, to the possibilities of happiness, pain, dejection, achievement and experience. Reincarnation may be on the cards for most of us but we live this particular life, whether it is maya or whatever else, only once. This is our only chance to engage it. Excess

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams where dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.

chose twenty-three because he hoped to be half as good a player as his brother Larry who wore number forty-five.

We may succeed, but if we lose what is best in us in the process, what have we won?

Chakotay took his hand before replying, "If you'll permit me the presumption, I've never been more proud of a journey I've witnessed than yours. If anyone had told me the day Voyager first set her course back to the Alpha Quadrant that this is where Tom Paris would be now, I wouldn't have believed it.

Albeit they doubt the achivement, Never can they cease it or take it away from you. For it carries a signal and a description of your tremendous effort...

Doors of heroes into the world are not easily opened but those that exit them are easily opened

My achievements should never be my enemies fear but rather the ability to destroy them after those achievements

So I parried, 'You're afraid to die, eh? Oh well.' 'Nonsense. It's only that my life's work isn't done yet.' That is how pompously he expressed himself, it was sickening.

Win just one for the Gipper.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

I create my own path. It was straight and narrow. I looked at it this way: you were either in my way, or out of it.