Quotes About Achievement

And the child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.

She became who she had been meant to be

She saw, briefly, the way the world rarely stopped to salute you or admonish you, regardless of what you had or had not accomplished.

How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself

There's only a handful of women who get anywhere. Short story writers, mostly, as if maybe women are somehow more acceptable in miniature.

It was as though there were a box I kept under a bed and pulled out only once in a while, and in this box were crammed Mary McCarthy and Lillian Hellman and Carson McCullers and now Lee the journalist. If I opened the lid, their heads would pop out like jack-in-the-box clowns on springs, mocking me, reminding me that they existed, that women could occasionally become important writers with formidable careers, and that maybe I could have done it if I'd tried.

you will have to fight your entire life. And that's why you'll always be better. Because you wanted it so much more.

You're going to look your girl straight in the eye and say, Baby your mom rode to the rafters. Your mom lifted three girls in her hand, grinning all the way, she says, our voices rising to a baying now, all together. Your mom build pyramids and flew high in the sky, and back in Sutton Grove, they're still talking about the wonders they saw that night, still talking about how they watched us all reach to the heavens.

I didn't grow up feeling smart and special, the world my oyster, born with a silver shucker in my hand. No one works harder than you, that's the way Zell and Juwon liked to put it. Everything I have is because I was the dutiful worker bee or because I have no other things to distract me, like girlfriends or wives, like mewling kids or family dogs or a love of weekend brunches and fantasy football, or a single, sad hobby, like solitaire or the Sunday jumble. I have this.

Remember this," she says, glowing, her skin golden and life-marked, "you will have to fight your entire life. And that's why you'll always be better. Because you wanted it so much more.

The hardest thing in this world is finding out what you're capable of.

Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings more satisfaction in the end.

Sometimes you have to take your time to get your reward.

The higher my GPA gets the more I realize high school is useless

Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.

YOU'RE GONNA GET BUMPED BY THE BEST MAN BRAND IN THE BUSINESS.

In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our nation. Distracted by the rush of our everyday life, we might shrug it off today, but 100 years from now, historians will be discussing this precedent.

Oh, yes!" said Arianna. "You're really good! One of the best.

Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.

Some people climb mountains, others get to have heart surgery.

A victory which is not honorable is nothing but a defeat!

Attack work! Even the toughest work will start running away! Attack the difficulties! This is the Golden Rule of every kind of victory.

Bible says the tree is known by his fruit. We can also say that the great man is known by his undreamed dreams!

Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!