Quotes About Achievement

Everything that's worth having in life hurts like the devil. There's no way round that.

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Each year new consuls and proconsuls are made; but not every year is a king or a poet born.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

Victory brings us level with Heaven.

The whole world organizes itself around the fact that people manage to get their awkward bodies in position to fuck, an achievement honored by toasters, tandems, and tax cuts.

it is labor, and labor only, which makes civilization possible. 'Tis labor that toils, and spins, and weaves, and builds, that another, not it, may enjoy. 'Tis the laborers who dive into the unknown caverns of the sea and compel her to yield up her hidden treasures, which they know not even the value thereof.

It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.

Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

To advance, however far, is profitless unless the ground gained can be consolidated, or the momentum sustained.

The barriers are not erected which can say to [aspiring] talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther.

Only art and science can raise men to the level of gods.

was schwer ist, ist auch schön, gut, groß etc, jeder Mensch sieht also ein, daß dieses das fetteste Lob ist, was man geben kann, denn das schwere macht schwizen (sic)" "what is difficult is also beautiful, good, great, etc, therefore every person understands that this is the greatest praise that one can give, because the difficult makes one sweat

Prince, what you are, you are through chance and birth; what I am, I am through my own labor. There are many princes and there will continue to be thousands more, but there is only one Beethoven.

El genio se compone del dos por ciento de talento y del noventa y ocho por ciento de perseverante aplicación

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

On one side of the seesaw is my education. My nursing certification. My twenty years of service at the hospital. My neat little home. My spotless RAV4. My National Honor Society-inductee son. All of these building blocks of my existence, and yet the only quality straddling the other side is so hulking and dense that it tips the balance every time: my brown skin.