Quotes About Achievement

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.

Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

Nobody ever feels like they've arrived. That's just the nature of being a creative type of person. You always feel like you can get better or reach more people.

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

To get over a mountain, you have to climb it.

If one can picture the words, then the works of the writer is an accomplishment!

To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation.

If you are HUMAN, then the limit of what you can do, what you learn, what you can experience HAS NOT YET BEEN REACHED.

If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'd all still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur.

Always compete upwards, as otherwise you'll find yourself reduced as a human.

For all our failings. Despite our limitations fallibilities. We humans are capable of greatness.

No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

Accuse not Nature she hath done her part Do thou but thine!