Quotes About Achievement

You're brave and not very bright, which is the key to success.

I'd like to say to all my fans out there, thanks for the support. And to all my doubters, thank you very much because you guys have also pushed me.

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.

Meredith has held faith for the last five months that Harvard will have faith in her-- even after the initial early deferral. They have to. She is smart and her parents are important.

Your successes were never due to your brains. You achieved them because you have "character.

Míthilá. 50. "I congratulate myself,"says Schlegel in the preface to his, alas, unfinished edition of the Rámáyan,"that

Dream the big dreams and then do them.

When all else fails, go for the ego.

Sì, è vero, andavo bene a scuola. Certo, facevo bene un sacco di altre cose. Ma io volevo correre. Forte, fortissimo. Con la moto. E l'ho fatto. Pensa se non ci avessi provato.

She also managed to win a citywide spelling bee, beating out students at all the other Negro schools in Jacksonville. "I received an atlas of the world and a Bible as prizes," she recalled, "besides so much lemonade and cake that I told President Collier that I could feel it coming through my skin. He had such a big laugh that I made up my mind to hurry up and get grown and marry him." Decades

What was the good at having an ideal if everyone is trying to beat everyone else at admitting how impossible it is to achieve it.

Valerio Massimo Manfredi

If you want your place in the sun you've got put up with a few blisters.

But in order to achieve that noble shade of yellow I achieved last summer I simply had to give myself quite a boost.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning . . . and the

Success is the sweetest revenge.

Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.

Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.

as a people and a Nation we have not been properly appreciative of intellectual achievement. This awareness and appreciation is not something the Government can legislate into being. We must build it into our national consciousness through our educational system, and until we do, science and all other forms of intellectual activity will lack the firm foundation they require.

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self... Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

Lentäminen on niin vaikeaa, ettei kukaan lentäisi, ellei se olisi niin vaikeaa.