Quotes About Achievement

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.

Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.

I have been underestimated for decades. I've done very well that way.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

To get rich is glorious.

I entered politics in 1967; since then, continuously, I am getting elected... Fortunately I never lost the elections.

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.

You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

Great obstacles make great leaders.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.

The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good and noble in our past - had the potential to do amazing things in the future.

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

You know, in politics when you come in third, it's a win.

No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.

I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind-but he must get there first.