Quotes About Achievement

It's no small feat, finishing a journey, I tell her. But no one ever mentions that once you get there, you will have to turn around and head all the way home.

You are not an impostor," Sam Hallowell told me. "You are not there because of luck, or because you happened to be in the right place at the right moment, or because someone like me had connections. You are there because you are you, and that is a remarkable accomplishment in itself.

Taking credit for what a child did well also meant accepting responsibility for what they did wrong.

unlike the rest of the free world, I didn't get here by accident.

The age wasn't as important as the milestones.

The problem, he said, with being one of the best is that you still have to get better. But you're competing with yourself.

getting what you want isn't instant gratification. It's a slow pulling apart, a realignment of bones and sinew. There are aches involved. There is bruising.

What's left unfinished? What is it that you haven't done yet, that you need to do before you leave this life?

She loved knowing that if she worked hard enough, at the end there was going to be an answer that made sense.

Actually, she liked math. She loved knowing that if she worked hard enough, at the end there was going to be an answer that made sense.

He wondered why, after years of wanting to stand at the very top, he felt so goddamned empty.

Their eye-hand coordination was impressive (maybe the Eugenics Council had done something right).

he'd done it as an infant.

The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.

Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.

There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.

You can be the best worker, the smartest in your field, a person who has won awards for your dedication and excellence—but if you don't somehow let people know about your talents, they won't ever call you or ask for your help.

Every man in a big position knows in his own heart that forces entirely outside himself have played a large part in his making." —Bruce Barton, 1928   "Many

if you take big steps and climb with all your little might!

I have consummated the work to which I pledged myself, using all the abilities that You (God) gave me; I have shown the glory of Your works to men, but if I have pursued my own glory among men while engaged in a work intended for Your glory, be merciful, be compassionate, and forgive.

The joyous cries he heard over the wall were all the reward he needed for a job well done and he smiled as he heard them.

Compatibility, on this view, is an achievement of love, not a precondition for love.

You need energizing friendships to achieve seemingly impossible goals.

There is no great success and outstanding achievement on earth without the input of friendship.