Quotes About Achievement

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But that which pleases us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who are falling.

We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they fail.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

To love or have loved is enough. Don't ask for anything more. There is no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is an achievement.

For the masses, success has almost the same profile as supremacy.

To subdue matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second.

These two products of a man's labor often come together. At the very moment when you become rich you are paralyzed. That rounds off your life.

Soit dit en passant, c'est une chose assez hideuse que le succès. Sa fausse ressemblance avec le mérite trompe les hommes.

Em meio a sua formidável felicidade, era lamentável, como todo ignorante que triunfa.

El éxito es algo bastante repulsivo. El falso parecido que tiene con el mérito engaña a los hombres.

Every profession has its aspirants who make up the cortège of those who are at the summit.

Sia detto alla sfuggita, il successo è una cosa piuttosto lurida; la sua falsa somiglianza col merito inganna gli uomini. Per la folla, la riuscita ha quasi lo stesso profilo della supremazia. Il successo, sosia della capacità, sa ingannare per bene la storia.

For the first time in his life, he was going to be a goddamn hero.

Your're successful beyond your wildest dreams and it still isn't enough?

Hey, Meg," she said without preamble. I need you to write a letter of recommendation for me. I'm applying for grad school." Meghann screamed into the phone. "Oh, my God ! I'm so proud of you. I'm hanging up now; I have to draft a letter that makes my best friend sound like da Vinci in a bra and panties.

That's one of my major themes in Firefly Lane—that we need to accept that we are good enough, that all we can do is our best.

Dreams. They'd had so many of them, and a surprising number had come true. The funny thing was that she hadn't valued them all highly enough when she'd had the chance.

The more she got, the more she wanted, the more afraid she was of losing it, and the harder she worked.

Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.

It is nearly impossible.' 'Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing.

Behind them, attached to the harness, was a

In his view, we were already a success, because we were doing something hard and it was something that mattered to us. You don't measure things like that with words like success or failure, he said. Satisfaction comes from trying hard things and then going on to the next hard thing, regardless of the outcome. What mattered was whether or not you were moving in a direction you thought was right.

You don't measure things like that with words like success or failure, he said. Satisfaction comes from trying hard things and then going on to the next hard thing, regardless of the outcome. What mattered was whether or not you were moving in a direction you thought was right.