Quotes About Achievement

I can paint that fucking cave.

John D. MacDonald is by any standards a better writer than Saul Bellow, only MacDonald writes thrillers and Bellow is a human-heart chap, so guess who wears the top-grade laurels?

Everyone is shy --- it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first.

together we could make something worthwhile of our lives'.23

God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!

Hr. Oftedal holder en stilling som mangen minister kunne misunne ham. På ti år har han drevet det til å bli en av Norges nevneverdigheter, – og det i ti bevegede år, hvori større skikkelser enn hans er falt uten å huskes mer, og større evner og krefter enn hans har kjempet uten å vinne.

Ne iÅŸti bu! Bir beygir gibi, ha babam, kendimi zorlam??, gece gündüz, gözlerim önüme ak?ncaya kadar okumuÅŸ, çal??m??, beynimdeki zekay? açl?klara ak?tm??t?m!

And maybe, just maybe, you will exceed your wildest dreams.

Die Wahrheit hat keinen Erfolg.

I was truly happy. But my state was not that of any ordinary satisfaction. It was a joy which stemmed directly from creative, artistic achievement.

Call her Betty Fucking Crocker, because the cake was so going to be worth the bake.

Nothing good ever came easy." (Garreth)

Fine. We can act like we're fuckups idling about. As per our usual. But if we cap a god, I'm telling everyone I know! Two words: Press. Conference.

Measure me by the caliber of my foes.

Excellence is praised." "Praise inspires excellence.

Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.

I don't understand," she said. "What?" "Why do you need a letter?" "Well, to explain—" "Kurt," she interrupted, "don't you know? You're graduating with academic distinction.

Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.

Emerald City. Not all the people could go to congratulate

With Dorothy hard at work, the

Education is a thing to be proud of.

Those who do the least, often shout the loudest and so get the most glory.

Oh, I wonder if I shall ever be able to do anything worth while in the way of writing.

And although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.