Quotes About Achievement

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

The best is the enemy of the good,

Our fear of death is deeply ingrained. It has been said that our knowledge of our mortality is what distinguishes us from other animals, and is the motive force behind almost all human action and achievement.

The year wears away—the last year it is too—and I find myself near graduation, with every prospect of success. And from the beginning to the close my life has been one not of trouble, persecution, or punishment, but one of isolation only.

It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can't be as bad as that workout.

For me, many albums are much more than a collection of songs. They're testaments to the courage to live above the minimum requirements of merely getting by.

The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Something attempted, something done,Has earned a night's repose.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

A banner with the strange device,Excelsior!

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Let us, then, be up and doing,With a heart for any fate;Still achieving, still pursuing,Learn to labor and to wait.

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.