Quotes About Achievement

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Siempre estoy haciendo cosas que no puedo hacer, así es como logro hacerlas.

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

My mother said to me, if you are a soldier, you will became a general. If you are a monk will become the Pope. Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

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

And I'm glad to see you made it." "I did," he said, giving her a smile that exposed wonderfully masculine teeth. Masculine teeth? What the heck was that?

Opportunities in life come by creation, not by chance. You yourself, either now or in the past (including the past of former lives), have created all opportunities that arise in your path. Since you have earned them, use them to the best advantage.

The weakling who has refused the conflict, acquiring nothing, has had nothing to renounce. He alone who has striven and won can enrich the world by bestowing the fruits of his victorious experience.

The germ of success in whatever you want to accomplish is in your will power.

He alone who has striven and won can enrich the world by bestowing the fruits of his victorious experience.

my first attempts at lisping phrase and toddling step. These early triumphs, usually forgotten quickly, are yet a natural basis of self-confidence.

It is only when a traveler has reached his goal that he is justified in discarding his maps. During the journey, he takes advantage of any convenient short cut.

When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your destiny.

Proof that one is a master, however, is supplied only by the ability to enter at will the breathless state (sabikalpa samadhi) and by the attainment of immutable bliss (nirbikalpa samadhi). The rishis have pointed out that solely by these achievements may a human being demonstrate that he has mastered maya, the dualistic cosmic delusion. He alone may say from the depths of realization: "Ekam sat" ("Only One exists").

When people you don't even know hate you, that's when you know you're the best.

You'll get your chance. One day. And when you do grab it with both hands.

Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics

Elinor retreated to the terrace where the night air on her skin felt like a hot bath. She was hurt, it had been such an onslaught. All the things she'd achieved in the past four years, the independent life she'd built for herself, seemed to count for nothing here. The only thing that mattered to her mother was finding a husband. As for painting, well, nice little hobby, very suitable, but you won't have much time for that when the children arrive.

Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood.

Take the local, take the express, don't get off till you reach success -- Sidney Rosen (Prince Of Tides)

From the beginning, I've told journalists that I planned to write better than any writer of my era who graduated from an Ivy League college. It sounds boastful and it is. But The Citadel taught me that I was a man of courage when I survived that merciless crucible of a four-year test that is the measure of The Citadel experience. I'm the kind of writer I am because of The Citadel.

I never once approached greatness, but toward the end of my career, I was always in the game.

But you finally got to be a tiger, Caesar.

The moral to this story is that consistent effort yields predictable success.