Quotes About Achievement

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

As though I had been going steadily downhill, imagining that I was going uphill. So it was in fact. In public opinion I was going uphill, and steadily as I got up it, life was ebbing away from me....And now the work's done, there's only death.

If a man has the will he can learn anything.

If there is something great in you, it will not appear on your first call. It will not appear and come to you easily, without any work and effort. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

If a person does not believe himself capable of doing the best things in the world, then he starts to create the worst things.

A change now began to take place in his work which gave him enormous pleasure. In the midst of his work moments came to him when he forgot what he was doing and began to feel light, and in those moments his swath came out as even and good as Titus's. But as soon as he remembered what he was doing and starting trying to do better, he at once felt how hard the work was and the swath came out badly.

Well, so you're pleased with your day. And so am I. First, I solved two chess problems, one of them a very nice one — it opens with a pawn. I'll show you.

those moments when once and for all a man shows his worth and that his whole past has not been in vain but has been a preparation for those moments.

He thought of nothing, desired nothing, except not to lag behind and to do the best job he could.

Our real innermost concern was to get as much money and praise as possible. To gain that end we could do nothing except write books and papers.

He who wants results must allow for the means.

They meet, as we shall meet tomorrow, to murder one another; they kill and maim tens of thousands, and then have thanksgiving services for having killed so many people (they even exaggerate the number), and they announce a victory, supposing that the more people they have killed the greater their achievement. How does God above look at them and hear them?' exclaimed Prince Andrei in a shrill, piercing voice.

Levin spent that evening with his betrothed at Dolly's, and was in very high spirits. To explain to Stepan Arkadyevitch the state of excitement in which he found himself, he said that he was happy like a dog being trained to jump through a hoop, who, having at last caught the idea, and done what was required of him, whines and wags its tail, and jumps up to the table and the windows in its delight.

the winning of battles does not necessarily lead to conquest,

even damn fools can accomplish something now and then.

1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.

We have jerks, assholes, and those who are just dumb... dumb! " "You mean relative to you others," my mother once protested. "No, Mom, dumb like anyone is dumb." "So how did he get a Ph.D.?" "Sitzfleisch, Mom." Sitzfleisch: the ability to sit through any task, to do it again and again until the job is somehow done. Those who give out Ph.D.'s are human too - sooner or later they give in.

If I can inspire people by showing that following a dream by working hard and being determined is possible, it's amazing.

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.