Quotes About Achievement

Magellan could only have marveled at the speed with which his plan to reach the Spice Islands had come together.

Of low extraction, and a person of weak character, his advancement must always be regarded with wonder.

Fletcher recalled, "this was the greatest." They were grateful to have overcome it, "but it was not the last.

way to earning a place in history. In the intervening months, he passed a series of tests

From the time we left that bay until the present day, we sailed fourteen thousand four hundred and sixty leagues"—nearly sixty thousand miles—"and furthermore completed the circumnavigation of the world from east to west.

approximation to Paradise that Magellan was likely to encounter during his entire voyage around the world.

I have found here a new world richer and greater than that of Vasco da Gama," he wrote.

Magellan believed that he could do what the Genoese navigator had claimed to do but had never actually accomplished:

the rest of his life. An ordinary seaman might attain a modest degree of wealth

Learn how to work and then the Great Work will be revealed to you.

The various schools, dergahs, ashrams, tekkes, organizations, and holistic centers that purportedly teach paths to 'enlightenment' have some poor track records of late. To cover up their students' widespread lack of enlightenment, the teachers of these schools portray enlightenment as something that is infrequent, unusual and difficult to achieve.

The summit is not the only place on the mountain.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

He must examine his objectives and see that true progress is achieved through moving forward to a better way of life, rather than upward to total life incompetence.

Many a man, under the old and the new systems, has made the upward step from candidate to legislator, only to achieve his level of incompetence.

The more conceited members of the race think in terms of an endless ascent—or promotion ad infinitum. I would point out that, sooner or later, man must reach his level of life-incompetence.

true progress is achieved through moving forward to a better way of life, rather than upward to total life incompetence.

The feather put into his cap of having been abroad.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.