Quotes About Achievement

Each generation has its own dream of beauty. I have lived long enough to watch it change. Just then, he was what all sculptors were reaching after, and only the great achieved.

People who have earned no pride in themselves, are content to be proud of their cities through other men.

He had to do them, to show he was the best.

To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults- yet faults tear away the perfection in you.

Family meals are also critical. Research consistently demonstrates that the family meal is a better indicator of academic achievement than participation in sports or the arts.

The important and only vital question is, how much greater, finer, am I than I was yesterday? Have I fulfilled my possibilities, made the most of my potentialities. What a marvelous world if all would, could hold this attitude toward life.34

Success is measured not in how much we accomplish, but in how much we overcome.

she took over the lead spot in Glass House, a group that recorded only a few records.

None strive to know their proper merit But strain for wisdom, beauty, spirit And lose the praise that is their due When they've the impossible in view

Something had been confirmed: I was worth giving a shit about; I was getting to be a successful sick person. Sick is when they say something. Of course, I had been sick for five years. But now, now maybe I was really sick. Maybe I wasgetting good at this, good enough to scare people. Maybe I would almost die, and balance just there, at the edge of the cliff, wavering while they gasped and clutched one another's arms, and win acclaim for my death-defying stunts.

when a woman is thin in this culture, she proves her worth, in a way that no great accomplishment, no stellar career, nothing at all can match.

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.

When the impossible becomes merely difficult, that's when you know you've won.

When the impossible becomes merely difficult, that's when you know you've won" -Agatha Swanburne

Agatha Swanburne - "Doing your best is no cause for regret.

Lord Fredrick Ashton himself wanted to become one of her pupils!

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The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

Shift your goals from the external to the internal: repeat to yourself that your objective is not to hit the target, but to deliver the best shot of which you are capable

eat well, exercise daily, get plenty of sleep, and do well in school.

The eudaimonic life, for Aristotle, is one in which we have lived to the fullness of our potential; developed our distinctive capacities to their finest points; and accomplished in the world what we have set out to do.