Quotes About Achievement

She feels as though she has something to prove at all times. Feels as though she has to earn the crown on her head over and over again.

The point of a fight is not to have a good fight, it's to win.

I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.

But let me quote President Theodore Roosevelt: 'Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Follow your dreams!

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.

By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

They strove to pile Ossa on Olympus, and on Ossa Pelion with its leafy forests, that they might scale the heavens.

May men say, "He is far greater than his father," when he returns from battle.

Always to be bravest and to be preeminent above others.

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

El error de los hombres superiores es gastar los años de su juventud en hacerse dignos de la estimación de los demás.

Whoever wishes to rise above the common level must be prepared for a great struggle and recoil before no obstacle. A great writer is just simply a martyr whom the stake cannot kill.

Le monde est un bourbier, tâchons de rester sur les hauteurs.

He became...the ideal of that virtue which delights in its own work...doing everything with simplicity and dignity, for he seemed to realize that his objective added nobility to everything he did.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

Self-distrust vanishes as triumph succeeds to triumph, and modesty is, perhaps, distrust of itself.

Doing his utmost, deploying all his energy, a young man setting out from zero can wind up after ten years somewhere below where he started.

You have not much luxury here," said the judge, gravely, looking round the room. "Well, my son, if we wish to be something great, we must begin by being nothing.

He had never dined with a duchess, never received a prize, never been interviewed, never produced anything which the public could understand, nor experienced anything since his schoolboy amours which nice people could regard as romantic. He was, in fact, an authentic scientist.

To one who had never made more than five thousand a year himself, it was inspiring to explain before dozens of popeyed and admiring morons how they could make ten thousand -- fifty thousand -- a million a year, and all this by the Wonder Power of Suggestion, by Aggressive Personality, by the Divine Rhythm, in fact by merely releasing the Inner Self-shine.

I will mount a long wind some day and break the heavy waves, And set my cloudy sail straight and bridge the deep, deep sea.

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