Quotes About Achievement

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

His noble negligences teachWhat others' toils despair to reach.

Over twenty men died during the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, Dr Lynch. Does anyone regret that? No, all anyone sees is a marvel of its time, a great achievement in human ingenuity. So it will be here. This place will be beyond great. It will be the envy of the entire world.

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at what point does our reach exceed our grasp? And if we find that answer it may be worth thinking about the consequences of reaching that point.

The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well. She had worked hard for years, and if she had nothing to show for it but her house and her son's education, there was still the fact of its having happened, which no one could erase from the record of human lives, even if no one was keeping one.

The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well.

To imagine happiness as the achievement of all our wishes and passions is to confuse the legitimate aspiration to inner fulfillment with a utopia that inevitably leads to frustration.

L'optimiste, en revanche, est confiant dans le fait qu'il est possible de réaliser ses aspirations et qu'avec patience, détermination et intelligence, il finira par y arriver. De fait, le plus souvent, il y parvient.

Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.

Annapurna, to which we had gone emptyhanded, was a treasure on which we should live the rest of our days. With this realization we turn the page: a new life begins. There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Yes! A fierce and savage wind tore at us. We were on top of Annapurna! 8,075 meters, 26,493 feet.

If it be true, as I believe, that humanity is worth just as much as the sum total of latent heroism which it contains, then we may declare that humanity was never stronger nor more exemplary than now and that it is at this moment reaching one of its highest points and capable of braving everything and hoping everything. And it is for this reason that, despite our present sadness, we are entitled to congratulate ourselves and to rejoice.

Perhaps it is essential to men to attain greatness in their works only when they do not look for it too hard.

Consciousness is not a good judge of what we are doing since we are involved in the struggle of history and in this we achieve more, less, or something else than we thought we were doing.

Perhaps there are never any masters except after the fact and from afar.

Il n'est toutefois de véritable élévation que conquise, de puissance et de gloire vraies qu'individuelles, forgées par la volonté et le travail. La presse qui promet l'une et l'autre ne saurait faire tomber dans son miroir à alouettes que les médiocres et les faibles. Balzac la condamne comme une fausse école d'ambition. (p. 149)

Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?

I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. - Earl Warren

Does the stag in his hour of victory need a diploma from the hind?

A thing half done is a game not won," said he. "If there's only one window in the house unlocked the devil may fly through it as easy as if the whole place was open.