Quotes About Achievement

social justice" in practice is just a rationale for the taking of one person's achievements, and giving them to others who are favored by the party in power.

Shed sweat—not blood

you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy and angry all of the days of your life."9

Earthly victories depend on heavenly victories, and vice versa.

You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That's what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look down on that sea of lights that is New Jersey and say, `Hey, I did that!'

self-actualization.

Mother Teresa, and she once told me that "death is part of the achievement of life.

John Carmack was a late talker. His parents were concerned until one day in 1971, when the fifteen-month-old boy waddled into the living room holding a sponge and uttered not just a single word but a complete sentence: "Here's your loofah, Daddy." It was as if he didn't want to mince words until he had something sensible to say.

If we can get this done, [Doom] is going to be the fucking coolest game that the planet Earth has ever fucking seen in its entire history!

It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.

I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed.

I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely.

So there I was, hovering above everything I knew. I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed.

Easy things are worthless, Laurie says. and I realzie he's talking to both Sean and me. It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for.

Five years behind me, but somehow with his shit together.

Calling someone a loser is a way of saying I've won without having to actually win anything.

It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for.

a little recognition of the escapes we made, of the finish line we crossed, only to find so many other finish lines waiting after it.

It's hard to show that you tried unless you end up succeeding.

Si hacen las cosas bien, la próxima generación tendrá mucho más de lo que ustedes tuvieron.

Only when you are challenged—and only when you challenge yourself—do you discover what truly matters.

And I think that the ultimate way you and I get lucky is if you have some success early in life, you get to find out early it doesn't mean anything. Which means you get to start early the work of figuring out what does mean something -- David Foster Wallace

My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.

He [David Foster Wallace] compares raising children to raising books, you should take pride in the work you do inside a family and not from how they make out in the world. "It's good to want a child to do well, but it's bad to want that glory to reflect back on you," is what he says.