Quotes About Achievement

You went for bronze over brains.

Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

Harvard doesn't consider anyone a loss until he dies without a diploma, because they say he can always come back and finish.

Robert E Lee didn't make it the first time and Jefferson Davis took the vacancy. Pershing didn't make it for two years, MacArthur couldn't get in the first year and Eisenhower took an extra year of high school to get in. Patton took three years to get in and five to get out.

Common sign rulerships bestow difficult and arduous lives and success gained against great odds, attended with heavy responsibilities. Men born under common signs usually start out early in life on courses of independent action.

It's already a good thing to have done a job you did enjoy at one point. That's pretty rare.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality the other, a matter of time.

You receive a great number of rewards as soon as you begin creating something you dream of deep within your soul.

I learned very quickly since then that the more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off.

doesn't always work, but when a venture succeeds, there is nothing else quite like it for the mind and spirit.

If you find yourself in conversation with someone you know and that person brings up someone you both know and before he says another word you mutter, "That guy's a fucking asshole," you might be a little bitter. If you find yourself dismissing universally acclaimed landmark achievements, saying, for example, "The Godfather is an okay movie," you might be bitter.

I know you've probably heard that in show business it can take twenty years to create an overnight success but what you don't hear is that that is the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

I graduated with honors, which was ridiculous. Charm goes a long way in the liberal arts.

it can take twenty years to create an overnight success but what you don't hear is that that is the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

that only those who dare, who demanded more of themselves than others believed possible, could make great things happen.

Das größte Vergnügen im Leben besteht darin, Dinge zu tun, die man nach Meinung anderer Leute nicht fertigbringt.

The American woman is the most intelligent woman in the world today - the only one that always knows what she wants, and therefore always gets it. Hasn't she proved it by making her husband in his role as slave-banker look almost ridiculous in the eyes of the whole world? Not only has she intelligence but a wonderful beauty of line is hers, possessed by no other woman of any race at the present time.

C'était mon premier grand départ. Si voyager seul, c'est voyager avec le Diable, je me félicite de l'avoir fait.

One also found there, in those days, a certain number of people learning to master bicycles. With fixed gaze and clenched jaws, they would suddenly bolt away from their teacher, shoot across the avenue, vanish into a thicket, and reappear with their machines round their necks.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

My life had been like a painter who climbs up a road overhanging a lake that is hidden from view by a screen of rocks and trees. Through a gap he glimpses it, he has it all there in front of him, he takes up his brushes.