Quotes About Achievement

The youth gets together this material to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance, a palace or temple on earth, and at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough.

If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.

If at first you do succeed — try to hide your astonishment.

I thought again what an achievement a book is, a magic box simultaneously holding the presence of the author and the wonders of the world.

Life is a zigzag journey, they say, not much straight and easy on the way, but the wrinkles in the map, explorers know, smooth out like magic at the end of where we go.

Great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their life work disappears.

Bana hiç ac?may?n… Biz, s?radan insanlar, yaln?z bir sefer ölürüz. Ama büyük adamlar iki sefer ölürler. Birinci sefer bu dünyay? b?rak?p göçtükleri, ikinci sefer de b?rakt?klar? eserler, y?k?l?p kayboldu?u zaman.

There is no need to feel sorry for me. For all of us die only once, whereas great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their lifework disappears.

Život u kasabi pored mosta bivao je sve življi, izgledao sve sre?eniji i bogatiji, i hvatao ravnomeran korak i dotle nepoznatu ravnotežu, onu ravnotežu kojoj svaki život, svuda i oduvek teži, a koju postiže samo retko, delimi?no i prolazno.

Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim.

Winning can be addictive

A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective.' (1923)

running is different from drinking in at least one fundamental way—you never regret it when you're done.

What's the point of playing if winning isn't the goal?

Just Roarke, as far as I know. Big money there. Kind of guy that touches shit and turns it into gold bricks. You've got to start reading more than the sports page, Dallas.

You've played the games. You're a competitive soul." "What's the point of playing if winning isn't the goal?

You did good today. I won't have to think twice going through the door with you. As Eve walked away, Peabody gaped after her. It had been simply, even casually said, but it was the finest professional compliment she'd ever been given.

Mr. Ail-American

Because you believed in me, you pushed me, and you taught me, I've got it." "That's not entirely untrue." Eve tipped the chair back, put the heel of one boot on the desk. "But if you hadn't believed in yourself, pushed yourself, and learned, I wouldn't have done you a damn bit of

to forging her career. She'd just landed a part in an

The greatest barrier of success is the fear of failure.

Kind of like winning the fifty-meter ass-stroke in the Loserlympics

The Brother pulled Craeg to his feet....and embraced him. Good job son. I'm proud of you. Craeg blinked his eyes fast, as if he were tearing up. The he seemed to give up the fight against his emotions by closing his lids, tucking his head and sagging into the Brother's arms. And that, Rhage said in a loud approving voice, is how you do it.