Quotes About Achievement

We must achieve neither mere history, nor mere fiction, but myth. A true myth is one which, within the universe of a certain culture (living or dead), expresses richly, and often perhaps tragically, the highest admirations possible within that culture.

It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit. Such as it is, the spirit that we have achieved is fair; and it is indestructibly woven into the tissue of the cosmos. We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be. We die knowing that the promise of further glory outlives us in other galaxies. We die praising the Star Maker, the Star Destroyer.

How happy he who crowns in shades like these,A youth of labor with an age of ease.

We have met the enemy, and they are ours.

among a people hurried and busy and preoccupied, some in the pursuit of riches, some in the pursuit of pleasure, and some, the majority, in the struggle for existence, there arise in every generation, here and there, one or two great souls—men who

we must wait two hundred years for the next name of great magnitude; moreover

No greater satisfaction exists now than a paragraph well written in honor of something you value.

We helped plow the fields, build the dams, write the poems and sing the music of America. Are not all Americans proud, of Doree Miller, of Frederick Douglass, of Paul Robeson, of Joe Louis, of Marian Anderson

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before they come to a standstill... The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be while you still live.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.

was no mean achievement to have given a Bill of Rights to a country that, until then, had never known any kind of freedom.

Riuscire? In quale momento si può avere la pretesa di riuscire? Non cerchiamo di riuscire, cerchiamo di vivere intensamente. Riuscire non è lo scopo di un fotografo. La fotografia è una passione di cui si è fatto un mestiere.

Poi coltivare un nuovo sogno e mettercela tutta per raggiungerlo. E spingersi oltre, sempre più lontano. Tutta la bellezza di questo mestiere consiste nell'andare a cogliere i propri sogni: fa' quello che ami e ama quello che fai. Non mettere alcun limite al tuo orizzonte, ma avvicinati passo dopo passo...

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

T]he ignorant soul is unaware even of that in which another is successful, but knowledge bears additional witness to that which is well done.

Opera producer Larry Kelly

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.