Quotes About Achievement

Don't let anything stop you from going where you need to go, from doing what you need to do. Make your mark on the world, and make it deep so it lasts.

good things happened when you took steps, when you worked for them—and when you were lucky enough to find people who'd give you a chance to do your best.

Pitam se ako postoji nešto što želiš,želiš to ve? neko vrijeme,što bi poduzeo?Ako to želim,zašto to nemam?Zato što do sada baš nisi uložio napor da to dobiješ.A zašto nisam?Jesam li spor ili samo glup?

The woman's managed what hasn't been done in thirty-one years. She's broke my god dawn nose

I'm going to treat myself to one of these as a reward for not knocking himself unconscious with a skillet.

worth his PhD should have a

her biggest problem lay in the struggling to live up to expectations. Including her own.

Fame all depends on the ground you're standing on...

You know her, then?

did. That was something a

bugle. "He knows I'm happy." She tipped her head back. "Let's go tell everybody else, and pop that champagne." With wine and music and light, she thought. They'd come through the fire, beaten back the dark for another day. And now, on the longest day, when the light refused to surrender, she was

years before.

She did not want the pleasurable and comfortable mediocrity in which she now wallowed to be the sum of her life.

Jewel moved 432,000 hardcover copies of A Night Without Armor, thereby making her the best-selling American poet of the past fifty years.

Sometimes I find myself wishing that the world would end in my lifetime, since that would be oddly flattering; we'd all be part of humanity's apex. That's about as great an accomplishment as I can hope for

While accepting the award for Best Director, Cameron quoted the most embarrassing line of dialogue from his own script: "I'm the king of the world!" Had this come from almost any other nineties figure, that would have seemed like self-deprecating irony. Coming from Cameron, it was not.

Let's assume it was Christopher Columbus's "destiny" to discover the New World, and let's pretend he was consciously aware of that fact. What possible difference would that have made in his day-to-day life? He still had to build the boats.

If you want to avoid criticism, it's better to be good than it is to be great.

This is a very common paradigm held in small towns. If somebody who grew up in your community wins a Nobel Prize, you cut out the newspaper story and put it on the bulletin board; if someone from your town grows up and becomes America's most depraved serial rapist, you cut out the newspaper story and put it on the bulletin board. It's just nice to see someone doing anything.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

One minute was enough, Tyler said, A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you'd never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you'd never need more. That if enough people loved you, you'd stop needing love.