Quotes About Achievement

Maybe this is the answer - maybe this is how to find true contentment - to live your life within confined horizons. To set modest goals, achievable ambitions. Not all of us can manage it, alas.

I may be a shit writer,' I remember him saying once, 'but I'm richer than any of the good ones.

William Boyd

Cornell off to realise another impossible dream, righting more geopolitical wrongs. In a way, she thought, you had to admire someone like that. They burned brighter than ordinary mortals.

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.

Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.

There is a man who has won the decathlon of human existence."*

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

now i can get them teeth

Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

He had been too successful, you see; his was that solitude of contempt and distrust which success brings to him who gained it because he was strong instead of merely lucky.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

He…who had not waited for Time and its furniture to teach him that the end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

La sabiduría suprema es tener sueños lo bastante grandes para no perderlos de vista mientras se persiguen

I made a fair job and I hope you will buy it and tell your friends and I hope they will buy it too.

All of us failed to match our dream of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Chasing waves in a dedicated way was both profoundly egocentric and selfless, dynamic and ascetic, radical in its rejection of the values of duty and conventional achievement.

success and like free enterprise and all

It worked okay.

Opportunities to do very badly were manifold. You avoided them. The major part in any success.