Quotes About Achievement

I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the fastest.

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Glory to Man in the highest! for Man is the master of things.

Achievers are believers.

One, who adopts patience, will never be deprived of success though it may take a long time to reach him.

The source of success of a claimant is the mediator.

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

In the light of the history sketched out above, it should be clear, counterintuitive though it may seem, that 'whiteness' (and 'blackness') is as much achieved as ascribed.

Taylor sighed. Going head-to-head with Sharpay on a school assignment was really beneath her. But the more Taylor considered it, the more she liked the idea of seeing her own poem in the paper. After all, the words "published poet" would look awfully good on those Ivy League college applications. "You know what?" Taylor said. "What?" Sharpay snapped. Hands on hips, Taylor stepped forward till the girls were nose-to-nose. "Bring it on.

And that most nice things are the result of hard work? The sweet from the bitter, you know.

There, little girl, don't read, You're fond of your books, I know, But Brother might mope If he had no hope Of getting ahead of you. It's dull for a boy who cannot lead. There, little girl, don't read.

Don't Dare take your college as a matter of course- because like freedom and democracy, many people you'll never know anything about have broken their hearts to get it for you.

She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

I will always have done that; when I die I will have done that; when I'm dead I will remember that I have done that.

Don't stop short of your goal

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly becomes a part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever." It

After all, watching a child march successfully into the larger world is one of the greatest satisfactions parenthood has to offer.

We all guard against sins of commission and we are vigilant toward sins of omission. But achievements—even in small doses—can make us vulnerable to sins of addition: adding niceties and luxuries to our list of basic needs, adding imaginations onto the strong back of vision, adding self-satisfaction to the purity of peace.

I am here—in the present, standing on the shoulders of all who've paved my way, in awe of where my life has led me.

Qué poco le pides a la vida. - Y ese tan poco aún no lo tengo.

Hey, Emma," Ben called. "Owen Zabriskie got a couple more hits last night. Did you watch the game?" "Most of it," Emma said. "When you're hot, you're hot," Spike said. Emma nodded. She wished she could get hot. Or even a little bit warm. She wondered if Owen Zabriskie had ever struck out eight times in a row.

I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.

I started running outside when I was at 'Biggest Loser.' Then I got runner's knee, and thought I was never going to be able to shake it. When I overcame that and ran the L.A. Marathon, it was such an amazing thing, and now running is such a part of my routine.