Quotes About Achievement

There's no such thing as a limited victory. You must protect what you have won. You must take is seriously.

I am an ambitious writer – I don't see the point of being anything, no, not anything at all, if you have no ambition for it.

Over the years I did my best to win a prize; some wish to better the world and still scorn it. But I never succeeded

I decided to apply to read English at the University of Oxford because it was the most impossible thing I could do.

Your life flashes before you, flash, flash, because there's so little of it. I mean, what have you ever done that was worth doing?

Being a great poet doesn't always mean that you write great poetry.

To live is not to breathe but to act.

Di solito si ottiene con tutta sicurezza e assai presto ciò che non si ha fretta di ottenere.

it is to this ardor for making oneself the topic of conversation, to this furor to distinguish oneself which nearly always keeps us outside ourselves, that we owe what is best and worst among men, our virtues and vices, our sciences and our errors, our conquerors and our philosophers, that is to say, a multitude of bad things against a small number of good ones.

me repetía este proverbio provinciano, algo menos exacto en París, que el que bien canta y bien danza trabaja mucho y no avanza.

On obtient très sûrement et très vite ce qu'on n'est pas pressé d'obtenir.

even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it.

Hunting is waiting, the Duke used to say, and if you never came home empty-handed they wouldn't call it hunting.

Eventually, even Mom acknowledged that I'd done all right. "No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

You didn't succeed. Well, what of that? There's nothing to prove, you know, and the revolution's not a question of virtue but of effectiveness. There is no heaven. There's work to be done, that's all. And you must do what you're cut out for; all the better if it comes easy to you. The best work is not the work that takes the most sacrifice. It's the work in which you can best succeed.

what summits would I not reach if my own life made the subject of the melody.

Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.

If you think, you can become successful and you are willing to learn and work at success, one day you will become successful.

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.

I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going to make a 'Mission: Impossible.'

Doing work points the way to new and better work to be done.

Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.