Quotes About Achievement

Oh, Matthew," exclaimed Anne, "I've passed and I'm first—or one of the first! I'm not vain, but I'm thankful." "Well now, I always said it," said Matthew, gazing at the pass list delightedly. "I

knew you could beat them all easy." "You've done pretty well, I must say, Anne," said Marilla, trying to hide her extreme pride in Anne from Mrs. Rachel's critical eye. But that good soul said heartily: "I just guess she has done well, and far be it from me to be backward in saying it. You're a credit to your friends, Anne, that's what, and we're all proud of you.

There is no pleasure in life like the joy of achievement.

It was nice to live where you could show how capable you were. This was her own world and she was a person of importance in it. There was a joy in her heart the clock round.

Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

Dream after dream comes true—or rather is made true by persevering effort.

Oh, Diana, will we really see our names in print? It makes me thrill to think of it. Your solo was perfectly elegant, Diana. I felt prouder than you did when it was encored. I just said to myself, 'It is my dear bosom friend who is so honored.

En este mundo pagamos un precio por todo lo que conseguimos y aunque vale la pena tener ambiciones, no se consiguen con facilidad, sino que exigen su precio en trabajo, abnegación, ansiedad y desaliento.

For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; 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.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by the joy of the strife. Next to trying and winning the best thing is trying and failing.

Jane was smiling and happy; examinations were over and she was comfortably sure she had made a pass at least; further considerations troubled Jane not at all; she had no soaring ambitions and consequently was not affected with the unrest attendant thereon. For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; 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.

price for everything we get or take in this world; 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.

Ah, insan?n hedeflerinin olmas? harika bir ÅŸey. Bir sürü hedefim olduÄŸu için çok mutluyum. Üstelik hedeflerin asla bir sonu yok gibi görünüyor; en iyi taraf? da bu. Bir hedefine ula??r ulaÅŸmaz, hemen daha yukar?da ???ldayan baÅŸka bir tanesini görüyorsun. Bu durum hayat? son derece ilginç k?l?yor.

She transcends her sport, which is what any sport needs...And she does it while smiling the whole time. It's kind of a joke, but then again it's not, especially if you're a male pro trailing in her wake. To have this woman in the middle of such a suffer fest out there crushing people and smiling all the way...

You don't just fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else.

Who's going to work hard for someone who doesn't win? ~ Jim Ochowicz

performing at the level that is essential for the company's success.

The gap between promises and results is widespread and clear. The gap nobody knows is the gap between what a company's leaders want to achieve and the ability of their organization to achieve it.

In all our lives there are hits, strikeouts, and the occasional home run. This book is dedicated to my two young sons, Chance King and his brother Cannon King, two of the cherished home runs of my life.

Bernard Berenson once said that the formation of the great library he assembled at I Tatti was his greatest achievement. I feel much the same way about the library (as distinct from the bookshop) that I've put together in Archer City. The collection—or, more properly, the accumulation—now numbers about 28,000 volumes. If I were beamed up tomorrow my library would attest to the fact that a reader had once been there. -- On Rereading, NYRB July 14, 2005

Basically Jake just dreamed his way through life and somehow got by with it.

When he walked out into the lots to catch his horse, he felt grown and complete for the first time in his life.

Not too many men, in his experience, had achieved a great thing, even one. Very few ever achieved more than one, he knew.