Quotes About Achievement

They probably think because I am so small and young, nothing of greatness and class can come out of me; but they shall soon find out.

Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.

I have found one can never get anything in life that is worth while without fighting for it.

You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.

The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, or in the series of his achievements, but in his attitude towards mankind and the conception which he sought to realize in action of the service owed by America to the rest of the world...Thomas Jefferson was a great leader of men because he understood and interpreted the spirits of men.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

If you're born with a gift, to behave like it's an achievement is not right.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . . I want to achieve it through not dying.

What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Any time you see someone more successful than you are ... they are doing something you aren't.

Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

Honor appears to me to be an object of great importance, since men submit to every kind of labor, and undergo every sort of danger, with the desire of attaining it.

The gods give nothing really good and beautiful without labor.

Death is the end of those who have done nothing to cause their names to live after them.

We made the zero, through great pain and struggle.

So you think that zero was there waiting for us when humans came into being, like the flowers and the stars? You should have more respect for human progress. We made the zero, through great pain and struggle.

Solving a problem for which you know there's an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid.

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

Though u have seen many, but u haven't yet seen enough. The good work always pays wonderfully