Quotes About Achievement

Education is...[A process] which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

If you want to be proud of yourself, you have got to do things you can be proud of.

Our reach must exceed our grasp.

It is one of the greatest achievements of Nietzsche that he confronted science with the problem of the

It is one of the greatest achievements of Nietzsche that he confronted science with the problem of the value of truth and knowledge… Descartes meant to doubt everything, but certainly not the value of his doubting.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, … deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own

And now I have finished a work that neither the wrath of love, nor fire, nor the sword, nor devouring age shall be able to destroy.

Perhaps too my name will be joined to theirs [the names of famous poets].

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

In moderation, goals and other external motivators are powerful, but when they become the exclusive drives to do anything, it's overwhelming.

But the thing with us was, we didn't really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.

It was the first time I'd ever been in a Roller. I sat there in the back seat, like the King of England, thinking, 'Three years ago, you were a puke remover in a slaughterhouse, and before that you were doling out slop to child molesters in Winson Green. Now look where you are.'

And if it wasn't as good as before, what was the point of doing it? There wasn't a point, as far as I was concerned.

Meanwhile, we'd been kicked out of school at fifteen and had worked in factories and slaughtered animals for a living, but then we'd made something of ourselves, even though the whole system was against us. So how upset could we be when clever people said we were no good?

We'd recorded Black Sabbath in one day. Sabotage took about four thousand years.

Bands like The Move , Traffic and The Moody Blues were proving that you didn't have to be from Liverpool to be successful.

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.