Quotes About Achievement

the best revenge is living well

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

What you'll find, I think, is that the things you most want to avoid are the things that make you feel the greatest when you actually do them.

I wasn't destined for greatness; I knew this. But I was figuring out how to steal it from someone stupid enough to relax their grip on it.

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

But coming close wasn't the same as winning, was it? ... He had won because winners won and everyone else just went home

By the time we're twenty, Hasina used to say, Giti and I, we'll have pushed out four, five kids each. But you, Laila, you'll make us two dummies proud. You're going to be somebody. I know one day I'll pick up a newspaper and find your picture on the front page.

Ahora era libre de hacer lo que quisiera, pero esa libertad se me antojaba ilusoria, pues me habían arrebatado aquello que más deseaba. Se supone que debemos trazarnos una meta en la vida y vivirla. Pero a veces, sólo después de haber vivido se percata uno de que su vida tenía una meta, una que seguramente nunca se le había pasado por la cabeza. Y ahora que yo había alcanzado mi meta me sentía perdido y sin rumbo.

clipped account of a mannered life, a life rich with achievement, grace, respect.

I didn't know what the other guy was playing for, maybe just bragging rights. But this was my one chance to become someone who was looked at, not seen, listened to, not heard.

Bagi para pengejar layang-layang, hadiah yang paling berharga adalah layang-layang yang terjatuh paling akhir dalam sebuah turnamen musim dingin. Itulah trofi kehormatan yang diperebutkan, sesuatu yang bisa dipajang untuk dikagumi para tamu.

When Laila saw the article, she'd thought of her childhood friends Giti and Hasina, and Hasina saying, By the time we're twenty, Giti and I, we'll have pushed out four, five kids each. But you, Laila, you'll make us two dummies proud. You're going to be somebody. I know one day I'll pick up a newspaper and find your picture on the front page.

Dia menang, karena pemenang selalu menang dan semua orang lain harus pulang.

I'm no damn good at this," she says slowly, almost shyly, "but what I'm getting around to telling you is, you've turned out good. You've made me proud, Markos.

Tapi hampir menang tidaklah sama dengan menang, bukan?

pero lo que trato de decirte es que me has salido bueno. Has hecho que me sienta orgullosa de ti, Markos.

And that right there was the single greatest moment of my twelve years of life, seeing Baba on that roof, proud of me at last.

This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply took for granted.

Anything worth having is going to be hard

I got it this time, Daddy Warbucks," I said

Small steps could make large journeys, if admittedly very slow ones.

When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last part of the descent, and collapsed on the Rongbuk glacier, and he was crawling over it on hands and knees when the woman who was his entire support team reached him; and he looked up at her out of a delirium, and said, "Where are all my friends?

The way got harder. One day they made only a kilometer.

But it is an orchestra," I say. "It's an imitation orchestra—an orchestrion, an orchestrina—whatever you call it, it does a terrible job! All you've done is turn a sublime group achievement, a human act, into an inferior egotistical solo—