Quotes About Achievement

Orson Scott Card

The key. The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hands on every key.

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

said Ender cheerfully.

I didn't fight with honor,' Ender added. 'I fought to win.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

He's such an extraordinarily brilliant person that it would be terrible if he let himself do nothing in the end.

Son las virtudes algo lejano? En cuanto quiero ser virtuoso, inmediatamente estoy alcanzando la virtud

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.

Don't worry if you have no position: worry about making yourself worthy of one. Don't worry if you aren't known and admired: devote yourself to a life that deserves admiration.

A man should say, I am not concerned that I have no place, I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

While they have not got their aims, their anxiety is how to get them. When they have got them, their anxiety is lest they should lose them.

The authoritative person is a model that others, recognizing the achievement, gladly and without coercion, defer to and appropriate in the construction of their own personhood. Confucius is as explicit in expressing the same reservations about authoritative relations becoming authoritarian as he is about a deference-driven ritualized community surrendering this noncoercive structure for the rule of law

He who chases two rabbits catches neither.

A Journey of a thousand miles becomes with a single step.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Great things.

Nothing worth while comes easy. Hard work just makes you appreciate it more.

The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.

I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere. [ Interview with Oprah Winfrey , June 5, 2007]