Quotes About Achievement

its own stability, however, it may well be that man himself is slowly achieving powers over a new dimension—a dimension capable of presenting him with a wisdom he has barely

You had such promise, Katarina. You were top of your class in mathematics, in chemistry, physics. You won the English essay contest. You were on the honor roll. You could have been anything you wanted, but now you are a maid, cleaning up after other people.

The man who fails, my learned friend, is the man who dies.

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

Success can't be forced.

Most things worth doing are difficult,

she didn't want to just add things to her bucket list; she wanted to cross things off too.

This time, though, he was waiting for a reason. The process itself might be mind-crushingly boring, but if he stuck it out, the end result would hopefully be worth it.

One day I want to surprise everyone by doing something unexpected and amazing, so I can be proud of myself.

The future had started to seem like a challenge he could conquer.

Sure, good things come to those who wait. —but they're the leftovers from those who. got there first.

Sure, good things come to those who wait—but they're the leftovers from those who got there first." Chloe Traeger

Winner gets to pick their spoils

Why choose failure when success is always an option?

The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.

This is what it look like when it WORKS?

Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.

I guess maybe you don't get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles

I felt my face stretch in a victorious smile. The potion had worked. I was inside. I had to suppress an urge to break into a soft shoe routine. Sometimes being able to use magic was so cool.

in the course of my life, I have more than once been too ignorant to know that something was impossible before I did it anyway.

The reward for work well-done is more work.

I had about as much chance to do that as I did of backpacking my car to the top of Mount Rushmore.

Hundreds of millions of man-hours of work and struggle and research, blood, sweat, tears, and lives have gone into the history of air travel, and it has totally revolutionized the face of our planet and societies. But get on any flight in the country, and I absolutely promise you that you will find someone who, in the face of all that incredible achievement, will be willing to complain about the drinks. The drinks, people.

The reward for work well-done is more work. "Ain't that the truth," I muttered. I stuffed the book back in my pocket and hit the road again.