Quotes About Achievement

George si alzò in piedi. «Ce la faremo,» disse. «Prenderemo quella casetta e andremo a viverci.» Tornò a sedersi. I tre stettero queti, tutti imbambolati nel portento della cosa, ciascuno lanciato nel futuro dove la cosa tanto bella si sarebbe avverata.

He had good children and he raised them fine. All doing well -maybe except Joe...they're talking about sending him to college, but all the rest are fine.

Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

You can boast about anything if it's all you have

We will have to see whether the practicing through the years has prepared me for the writing of a book. For this is the book I have always wanted and have worked and prayed to be able to write. We shall see whether I am capable. Surely I feel humble in the face of this work. And as our Roman friends would say when casting outside themselves for help, Ora pro mihi. February

It's nice for a mediocre man to know that greatness must be the loneliest state in the world.

Just set one day's work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out. And that's the only way it does.

You can boast about anything if it's all you have.

Young Henry was conscious, this night, that he had lived for fifteen tedious years without accomplishing any single thing of importance. And had his mother known his feeling she would have said, 'He is growing.' And his father would have repeated after her, 'Yes, the boy is growing.' But neither would have understood what the other meant.

printings, he told Pascal Covici, his editor at The Viking Press, that he was "immensely pleased

in addition to eminence, superiority has two other qualities or rather three—simplicity, clarity and generosity.

Mack's eyes looked off into space and his lips were parted. He could see it all. "Hughie," he said, "I think you got something there. I never would of thought you could do it, but by God you really rang a duck that time.

rose like cream to the top of milk.

He raged at his farm, forced it, added to it, drilled and trimmed, and his boundaries extended. He took no rest, no recreation, and he became rich without pleasure and respected without friends.

He took no rest, no recreation, and he became rich without pleasure and respected without friends.

In 1955, the American Society of Civil Engineers selected the Empire State Building as one of the seven greatest engineering achievements in America's history—the only wonder conceived, financed, owned, and managed by private industry.3

The basic plan of the building was reached in four weeks.

I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.

What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.

Life is a hill that gets steeper the more you climb.

a line from Søren Kierkegaard appeared on the first page to which I flipped: "There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming." I

If that's what you want to do, then you should go do it-and do it well.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.