Quotes About Achievement

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On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

I need more than the streets. I don't want to be a floating crap game all my life. I want to be something . . . anything.

In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.

Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter.

Gaps in our lives drain the power needed to make a positive difference in the world.

Results take time to measure.

He who possesses the source of Enthusiasm Will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair.

Success is a collection of problems solved.

Be the best, not necessarily the original.

came upon me so gradually, so very pleasantly, that I considered myself especially blessed. You see, I was put in charge of brewing

Producing the prefect concrete has become a kind of philosopher's stone of the late 20th century.

Excellence is the gateway to an infinite world of possibilities

We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!

Without identifying the overall destination of the journey, together with the strategic direction and the necessary compass adopted for reaching it, there can be no hope of success."8

22 toe touches • 16 sit-ups • 23 leg lifts, lying on my front • 15 push-ups • 440 running-on-the-spot steps, each 4 inches high, with 10 stride jumps every 75 steps You do all this in 9.5 minutes.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success

We are always sure that the heroine is fiery and passionate, which is quite an achievement when the plot has had to keep her passive, inactive and loveless for long stretches. Up to the point when Jane's love declares itself, the novel establishes the passion largely by negatives—a method very prophetic of that of D. H. Lawrence, who was in many ways influenced by Charlotte Brontë.

Sometimes when you aim for the stars, you hit the moon.

I was sure that on my gravestone, my epitaph would read, 'He came. He saw. And then he came again.

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

Striving, straining for the clouds, she could hear the voices in the manswarm below shouting, "Never do it, never make it, too far, too high, too much," and she shouted down to them, "Of course I can, of course I will, watch me, watch me!