Quotes About Achievement

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. - Drizzt Do'Urden

Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years, than in my 37 years on earth.

Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable

You don't have to be the smartest person to become successful and wealthy. Many of the most successful and wealthy people in society are not the most educated people.

To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.

Unless you already have a name well known in at least one stratum of society, I don't think trying to do things yourself will be easy - if at all possible.

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

Isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?

What point was there in living if you didn't at least try to be as cool as your heroes? p. 6, Double Duce

There are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Don't worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition

I will study and prepare myself, and someday my chance will come.

There can be glory in failure and despair in success.