Quotes About Achievement

There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

Why was success required of a person? And once you were successful, life required you to do it again and again.

Inch by inch it's all a cinch, by the yard it's hard. Go for it -- no matter how slow or long the process seems at first.

Sommige mensen wachten hun hele leven op applaus van de wereld en pas vlak voor hun dood komen ze tot de ontdekking dat ze voor een lege zaal hebben staan spelen.

Most of us will never do great things. But we can do small things in a great way.

That's the only way to get where you want to go: one step at a time.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Nothing fails like failure.

It's not a contest. At least, it's not a good contest.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

He was a mean man, it's true, but he got ahead. A man gets on by working harder than the rest—that's what he used to say—and if he doesn't get anywhere, he hasn't a soul to blame but himself.

The history of American spaceflight is a history of doing less than had been planned, less than had been hoped for.

If someone asked me to sum up what is great about my country, I would probably tell them about Apollo 11, about the four hundred thousand people who worked to make the impossible come true within eight years, about how it changed me to see the space-scarred Columbia capsule in a museum as a child, about how we came in peace for all mankind.

People care about the unutterable awe of American heroes stabbing into the heavens on columns of fire.

If someone asked me to sum up what is great about my country, I would probably tell them about Apollo 11, about the four hundred thousand people who worked to make the impossible come true within eight years ...

Yet sometimes Renaissance Souls don't feel so lucky. Despite a long and proud history of Renaissance Souls who've negotiated treaties, invented revolutionary machines, written great novels, and led victorious armies, our culture often insists that we are defective.

Introduced by Barbara Sher in Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want, it's like

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

she had always struggled with being motivated to eat well, which in her case meant that she also struggled with her weight. Now, for the first time, she understood why it is essential to eat well. She finally felt motivated by a desire to achieve a high level of vibrancy, which in turn would allow her to establish a clear channel for her Divine source to guide her.

Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now.

And yet, I felt a surge of exhilaration just thinking about that night. Not just because I'd met the prince and fallen in love and started on my course toward happiness ever after, but because I'd made something happen. I'd done something everybody had told me I couldn't. I'd changed my life all by myself. Having a fairy godmother would have ruined everything.

But the principal psychological achievements of this process take place in the period from about the fourth or fifth month to the thirtieth or thirty-sixth month, a period we refer to as the separation-individuation phase.