Quotes About Achievement

Diseña un plan y reúne todo lo que necesitas, pero, hagas lo que hagas, nunca pienses que es imposible.

You can have a great system for organizing e-mail, or scheduling daily conference calls on various projects, but I'm guessing at your retirement dinner, people won't talk about your pristine in-box or packed schedule. They'll want to talk about what you've done. If you're not getting anything that matters done—like, say, lowering Vietnam's infant mortality rate—then you're not really working.

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

Most well-behaved women are too busy living their lives to think about recording what they do and too modest about their own achievements to think anybody else will care.

You could have a million ideas, but they're all worthless if you don't get them done.

Let's face it: I want it all--just like you and everybody else. It may not be in the cards, but the prospect is so dazzling that I have to try.

Oh, and by the way, you did good, kid.

Everything worth having is worth working for, don't you think?

Henrietta Swanson: "She was voted young lady most likely to become charming." Sheriff Taylor: "Well, say now. Becoming charming - that is something to look forward to, ain't it.

Lauren St. John

The strait still eluded them but, God willing, they would find it, and reach the Spice Islands

Laurence Bergreen

Yet his salary was considerably more than Magellan's, the highest of any in the fleet:

in 1434, Eannes finally accomplished what so many had said was impossible

Concepción 90 tons, Victoria 85 tons;

together with Alfonso Gonçalves Baldaya, returned to Cape Bojador;

Although Portugal was celebrated for leading Europe into the Age of Discovery, Portuguese kings often frustrated their heroic mariners.

Vasco da Gama came to believe that he had been inadequately rewarded for his service to the crown.

saw it: the outlet leading west, just as he prayed it would. Magellan had finally found his strait.

On October 21, Albo, the pilot, recorded the great event in his log:

who distinguished themselves as scientists, artisans, merchants, scholars

Winter had navigated the Strait not just once, as Magellan and Drake had, but twice.

she would eventually become the most celebrated vessel of the Age of Discovery.

Laurence Bergreen