Quotes About Achievement

O poder do Homem deve exceder o seu alcance. Senão, para que serviria o céu?

Your reach should exceed your grasp, or what's a heaven for

To only have conceived, Planned your great works, apart from progress, Surpasses little works achieved!

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.

As he later wrote, if he believed there were things he couldn't do, he would still be working at the meatpacking plant in Sioux City.

The two defining characteristics of a successful assault are detailed planning and violent execution.

On the wall over his head as he worked was a framed quote from President Calvin Coolidge: "Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

No higher praise can be awarded a fighter pilot than to say he is "shit hot." (The phonetic version used in polite company is "Sierra Hotel.")

When he ran, he even loved the pain, the hurt of the running, the burning in his lungs and the spasms that sometimes gripped his calves. He loved it because he knew he could endure the pain, and even go beyond it. He had never pushed himself to the limit but he felt all this reserve strength inside of him: more than strength actually—determination. And it sang in him as he ran, his heart pumping blood joyfully through his body.

If it was easy, it wouldn't be fun.

The living room walls were crowded with trophies for excellence in the martial arts. Hundreds of them. Gleaming first-place cups and championship belts from exhibitions and tournaments all over the United States. Best All-Around. In Recognition of Excellence. Black Belt Master. Over-All Champion. "Don't worry about this stuff," I said. "The guy probably bought'm." Pike said, "Uh-huh.

The tears were his. Tyson had earned them.

POLLARD CALLED IT the blood tingle. She blasted up the Hollywood Freeway, high-fiving the dashboard and pumping her fist, feeling the electric buzz in her fingers and legs that had always come with making a breakthrough in a case—the blood tingle.

Lincoln had risen to this pinnacle through migration, self-education, and hard work.

The search for power is not made for the achievement of moral values; moral values are used to facilitate the attainment of power.

Schooling—unequal as it is in America—plays only a minor role in alleviating or creating test score gaps.

If you've got fifty goals," the governor once lectured the Texas Education Agency, "you've got no goals.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.

Time always won the race.

You might be the smartest person in the world, but the second-smartest person will just need a little more time to do it.

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it is still too early to assertions. They're all 'in the field.' It remains to be seen how many will cross the finish line.