Quotes About Achievement

I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years, she announced with some small sense of achievement. I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.

It wasn't going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn't deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn't scare me as much as it used to.

To fail spectacularly is a loser's paradise.

We try to make art perfect because we never manage it in real life

What are you doing? I'm trying - You are not, my girl. There are two sort of people in this world, doers and tryers. You are the latter and I'm trying to make you the former. Now concentrate, girl!

There are two sorts of people in this world, doers and tryers. You are the latter and I am trying to make you the former.

si puedes llenar el inexorable minuto, con sesenta segundos que valieron la pena recorrer, tuya es la Tierra y todo lo que hay en ella, y lo que es más: serás un hombre, hijo mío.

Time is not measured by the passing of yaers but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit

the best salespeople do not work for a salary but instead for a commission.

I'm the only millionaire zoologist there is.

What is one to do against an enemy whose weapons are conformism and stupidity? Should one make oneself more conformist and more stupid? If his strategy lies in cunning and achievement, should one make oneself more cunning, more of an achiever? Should one make oneself more mediatic than the media?

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don't like?

Portia remembered her interview in the small office upstairs...in which she had been so shy, so terrified about not being good enough, not getting this thing, this chance, which she had only just discovered she wanted very badly.

You're only as successful as the last book you published, and you're only as good as the next book you're writing. So shut up and write.

On Central Park West, a woman searching for just the right superlative for the man who is guiding New York through the greatest disaster ever to hit an American city finally said, "He's not like a god; he is God." . . . He has achieved what political observers would have told you two weeks ago is impossible. He is not only respected, but revered. And not only revered

It wasn't exultation she felt, not the excitement of a first kill or even the satisfaction of overcoming a powerful beast. It was something deeper, more humbling. It was the knowledge that she had overcome herself.

The men compete in what they do; the women in what they make,' she said, then smiled, 'including babies, though that is a very subtle competition, and nearly everyone thinks she is the winner.

It gave her a sense of pride and accomplishment

I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue had never been erected in honor of a critic

Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been a statue set up in honour of a critic.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.