Quotes About Achievement

See the conquering hero comes Sound the trumpets, beat the drums

Of the eight, seven had served in the war. Two had medals to show for it, including Smith, awarded a Silver Star for carrying two badly burned fellow soldiers out of a demolished tank and through hostile fire. Six had attended college and four, including Boggs, had diplomas (a graduation rate exponentially higher than the white cops').

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without name.

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem lightly.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

That which we obtain too easily we esteem too lightly.

The will is the keystone in the arch of human achievement. It is the culmination of our complex mental faculties. It is the power that rules minds, men and nations.

he's shitting in tall cotton

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges.

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Si quiere usted alcanzar la excelencia, puede lograrlo hoy mismo. A partir de este segundo, no haga ningún trabajo que no sea excelente.

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Without triers they would never be any successors

Without triers there would never be any successors

Pearls rarely turn up in oysters served to you on a plate; you have to dive for them.

We must just keep on and on until the mountains themselves crumble from nausea or we learn to scale them and cool our hands in the sky.

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.

Think of how far you've come," Maggie said softly. "And then ask yourself how much farther you wish to go

I will carry you upon my shoulders, my son And climb the tallest mountain So you can behold all the fruit Of our alive and green valley.