Quotes About Achievement

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

Robert, how could you have sold yourself for money? I did not sell myself for money. I bought success at a great price. That is all.

Ehrgeiz ist die letzte Zuflucht des Versagers

The Icelanders are the most intelligent race on earth, because they discovered America and never told anyone.

Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

By yielding you may obtain victory

Hurry to your goal together. That is full bliss when man and woman lie equally conquered.

And now I have finished the work, which neither the wrath of Jove, nor fire, nor the sword, nor devouring age shall be able to destroy.

and I will reach the stars with the crown of my head

But if I had lived to be twenty-nine years old like I am, and with all my chances made no enemy, I'd feel myself a failure.

My father always said I would do something big one day. 'I've got a feeling about you, John Osbourne,' he'd tell me, after he'd had a few beers. 'You're either going to do something very special, or you're going to go to prison.' And he was right, my old man. I was in prison before my eighteenth birthday.

I believe there is little you cannot do once you set your mind to it.

If I can't have my own mate and my own children, then I can at least have my own kingdom.

Success comes to a writer, as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

He had that indefinable air which comes to young men who have had to make their way up from a ten-dollar start.

I am going to start at the bottom and work my way still further down.

A drawback to success in life is that failure, when it does come, acquires an exaggerated importance.

De la vida no quiero mucho. Quiero apenas saber que intenté todo lo que quise, tuve todo lo que pude, amé lo que valía la pena y perdí apenas lo que nunca fue mío.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

It took me a lifetime.