Quotes About Achievement

If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]

Even in death may you triumphant

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.

Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.

I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it; I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral, Seeing that long standing increases all things regardless of quality.

No es preciso tener una visión evolucionada de la vida para ansiar poder, ni para alcanzarlo. De hecho, una visión evolucionada de la vida puede ser el peor obstáculo, mientras que la carencia de esa visión puede ser la ventaja más espléndida.

Una universidad era una universidad: que fueras a una cualquiera y acabaras licenciándote era lo único que le importaba a una familia tan poco mundana como la mía.

But may I ask, Marcus, merely out of curiosity, how you manage to get by in life—filled as our lives inevitably are with trial and tribulation—lacking religious or spiritual guidance?" "I get straight A's, sir.

success can lead to acclaim that can undermine the habits of mind that produced the success.

Grace comes from outside, as a gift and not an achievement.

a long period of struggle and effort precedes nearly all worthwhile human accomplishments.

Jesus proclaimed unmistakably that God's law is so perfect and absolute that no one can achieve righteousness. Yet God's grace is so great that we do not have to.

We live in an atmosphere choked with the fumes of ungrace. Grace comes from outside, as a gift and not an achievement.

As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.

feel that deep joy of a writer seeing her work in print for the first time. The absorbing private work has become public, it has stepped out into the world. It will be judged and I am full of confidence that it is good work.

the greater the noise the less the deeds. And grand announcements do not mean great doings. Let

But to tell you the truth, it is the same for me. I am as envious of her as she is of me. But I have seen her rise and rise.

The valence of violence around gender and generational authority becomes especially charged when avenues for asserting hierarchy and achievement are limited by poverty, chronic drug and alcohol use, and social marginalization—all of which shape lumpen reality at the everyday level in the United States in the early twenty-first century.

You create the results in life that you believe you deserve. —DR. PHIL MCGRAW

The difference between you and the person you envy, is that you settle for less.

I didn't just come in on a load of turnips!

I can't believe this is really happening, Caroline said to Wally, both of them wearing their goblin cloaks and hoods. I'm a real actress at last. Do you know where you'll see my name someday? On a tombstone? said Wally. Caroline flashed him a disgusted look. In lights! On Broadway! Someday you and your brothers will go to the movies and see me up there on the screen. If we see you on the screen, we'll ask for our money back, Wally told her.