Quotes About Achievement

whoever approaches his goal dances

If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet? 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 moon 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.

A creation perfectly evolved to meet its own end.

The work of an instant. The work of a lifetime.

There's no way to answer that question. My friend John maintains that if things are going reasonably well it's all your own doing and if not then it's all bad luck.

if things are going reasonably well it's all your own doing and if not then it's all bad luck.

Er war schon lange der Beste.

Er würde so berühmt werden, das niemand sich mehr an Albert Chanute erinnern würde.

Everybody could be doing something better without their lives. Name me one person who is doing the best, most righteous thing with their life this very minute.

He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.

Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.

Social climbers strive to be aristocrats but their efforts prove them no such thing. Aristocrats do not strive; they have already arrived. Swing is a state of arrival.

and returning him safely to earth.

K-k-keep your helmet on. T-t-toothless doing his BEST.

Imagine if you had spent the whole first part of your life trying to walk on your hands. The clumsiness of it, always falling over, always stumbling, always the last at everything. Imagine the joy of discovering that in fact you could walk on your feet after all.

Inés de Bobadilla, Cuba's first woman governor

Children are nothing but a problem people create and then congratulate themselves on solving.

Now other women know they, too, can make it, and not because I or anyone else tells them. they know because they have seen it happen.

The bitch-goddess, as she is called, of Success, roamed, snarling and protective, round the half-humble, half-defiant Michaelis' heels, and intimidated Clifford completely: for he wanted to prostitute himself to the bitchgoddess, Success also, if only she would have him.

Hold firmly to your aspirations; tenacity breeds tenacity as success breeds success.

For, of course, being a girl, one's whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl's life mean?

And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.

Learning was the only distinction to which she thought to aspire.

Si rese conto, ora, che la dea-cagna del successo, aveva due grandi appetiti: uno era la fame di adulazione, di lusinghe, di carezze e moine che le davano gli artisti e gli scrittori. Ma l'altro era più feroce, era fame di carne e di ossa. E la carne e le ossa per la dea-cagna del successo, erano forniti dagli uomini che facevano denaro nelle industrie.