Quotes About Achievement

You just had to know how to do it, and when to do it, and most important of all, why to do it. Powerful substance like this, Lowell would explain, it wasn't there just for any casual jack-off recreational urge. It was there to allow you to do things. To empower you, he said, so you could do things and, best of all, finish them.

Thought was a valuable thing, that got results.

Look, are you just fiddling around with me or what? I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people o die embarrassed.

You're right," the Turk agreed, staring back. "He isn't gaining on us. He's just getting closer, that's all.

So I would do the abridgement of the sequel and then do my own novel and ride off into the frigging sunset, thank you very much.

The power of an individual lies in the ability to accomplish goals — either alone or with the help of others.

Who among you would teach your boys that ease, that peace is to be the first consideration in your eyes—to be the ultimate goal after which they strive? You men of Chicago have made this city great, you men of Illinois have done your share, and more than your share, in making America great, because you neither preach nor practice such a doctrine. You work yourselves, and you bring up your sons to work.

He wanted to feel as if he were—to play on his famous line from On the Waterfront—a "contender," someone who mattered, someone who had fought the good fight. He wanted to feel as if he had made a difference, left a mark, and not just on acting. What he did not want to be was an "unthinker," the way he described those people who never examined themselves or their place in the world.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease.

If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.

the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second

The strenuous life tastes better.

The things that ask the most of us are the things most worth having.

We thank God Almighty for all our achievements especially for keeping us safe!

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

Get back to work , he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne.

He who toils with pain will eat with pleasure.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.

Climb mountains to see lowlands.

Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.