Quotes About Achievement

No one is mocked with the yearning for that which they have no ability to attain.

he wins the prize who pays the price.

The gods sell anything and to everybody at a fair price. Success is on sale in the world market place. All who are willing to pay the price can buy it.

Self-confidence has ever been the best substitute for friends, pedigree, influence, and money. It is the best capital in the world; it has mastered more obstacles, overcome more difficulties, and carried through more enterprises than any other human quality.

Each of us has the same number of hours in his day, the same number of days in his year, and the chief difference between the success and the failure lies in the use to which the hours' and the days are put.

LIVE UPWARD. Do what thou dost as if the stake were heaven, And this thy last deed ere the judgment day. If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope. --HELEN KELLER

success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed : pay the price and it is yours.

Ambition is the spur that makes man struggle with destiny. It is heaven's own incentive to make purpose great and achievement greater.

There are three kinds of people in the world, says a recent writer, the wills, the won'ts, and the can'ts. The first accomplish everything; the second oppose everything; the third fail in everything.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. —Longfellow.

It is to what you see, to what you believe, to what you struggle incessantly to attain, that you will approximate.

There is no satisfaction like that which comes from the steady, persistent, honest, conscientious pursuit of a noble aim.

Many a man would have been a success had ne connected his fragmentary efforts. Spasmodic, disconnected attempts, without concentration, uncontrolled by any fixed idea, will never bring success. It is continuity of purpose alone that achieves results.

You killed more people than anybody in history. Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.

You made them hate me. Said Ender So? What will you do about it? Crawl in a corner? Start kissing their little backsides so they'll love you again? There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. I told them you were the best. Now you damn well better be. -Graff

Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement. It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.

I could become a businessman and run some big corporation, I'd scramble and maneuver until I was at the top of everything and what would I have? Nothing.

What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.

There is no harder job than parenting. There is no human relationship with such potential for great achievement and awful destructiveness, and despite all the experts who write about it, no one has the slightest idea whether any decision will be right or best or even not-horrible for any particular child. It is a job that simply cannot be done right.

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.