Quotes About Achievement

And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.

Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.

I've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day I could try something like that.

I'm so proud of myself. I worked with anger, with the darkest things in the world.

Reach for the stars and even if you miss you will land among the stars

Walt had done something new, something big, just as he always hoped he would. And it was just the beginning.

Actors create and maintain systems, and if they fail to do so, the systems in question cease to exist. The stability of systems is a frequently precarious achievement in the face of potentially hostile forces, both social and natural.

THIS is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

Life is not made for happiness, but for achievement. The history of the world is not the theatre of happiness; periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony; and this dull content is unworthy of man. History is made only in those periods in which the contradictions of reality are being resolved by growth, as the hesitations of and awkwardness of youth pass into the ease and order of maturity.

The experience of the past leaves little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient. Normally and generally men are judged by their ability to produce—except in war, when they are ranked according to their ability to destroy.

he loved wisdom too much to be a "successful" man.

Morality, like art, is the achievement of unity in diversity; the highest type of man is he who effectively unites in himself the widest variety, complexity, and completeness of life.

Let me have seven hours a week, and I will make a scholar and a philosopher out of you; in four years, you shall be as well educated as any new-fledged Doctor of Philosophy in the land.

It is memory that classifies and interprets sensations into perceptions, and perceptions into ideas; but memory is an accretion. That unity of the mind which Kant thinks native (the "transcendental unity of apperception") is acquired—and not by all; and can be lost as well as won—in amnesia, or alternating personality, or insanity. Concepts are an achievement, not a gift.

Nor may we define progress in terms of happiness, for idiots are happier than geniuses, and those whom we most respect seek not happiness but greatness.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. Philosophy is a hypothetical interpretation of the unknown (as in metaphysics), or of the inexactly known (as in ethics or political philosophy); it is the front trench in the siege of truth.

the only difference in motive between the rich man and ourselves is seldom a difference in scruples, but is usually a difference in opportunity and skill.

the Ann Arbor, Michigan, School Board, near where I live, had a debate as to whether the primary mission of their schools was imparting knowledge or raising self-esteem. Self-esteem won.

We please others best-and best satisfy ourselves-only when we have done our own job fully and thus fulfilled our own potential.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet; this is not done by jostling in the street.

This is vexing: I feel in a kind of limbo - an author but not truly an author, true authorship being conferred by having a book physically published - a thing you can hold in your hand, purchase in a bookshop.