Quotes About Achievement

And really, how insulting is it that to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I'm betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own.

One concept of activity, the modern one, refers to the use of energy for the achievement of external aims; the other concept of activity refers to the use of man's inherent powers, regardless of whether any external change is brought about.

Man's nature, his passions, and anxieties are a cultural product; as a matter of fact, man himself is the most important creation and achievement of the continuous human effort, the record of which we call history.

almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to

Joy, then, is what we experience in the process of growing nearer to the goal of becoming ourselves.

The school aims to give each student a certain amount of "cultural property," and at the end of their schooling certifies the students as having at least the minimum amount.

What use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician at school?

Ach, darling, why aren't we rich? We have such marvellous ideas of what to do with it. There are so many rich people who can do no better than go backwards and forwards to their banks and offices. That's why they are rich, of course, said I. If we were rich we certainly wouldn't be so for long.

Džiaukis gyvenimu ir m?styk tik tada, kai tai reikalinga. - O kada reikalinga? - Kai nori užsidirbti pinig? arba prasimušti.

ÄŒovek je u namerama uvek veliki, ali ne i u ostvarivanju.

Savo sumanymais žmogus visada yra didis. Tik ne j? ?vykdymu. Tuo jis ir yra žmogus.

What ever came of the good scholars in the world? —In the hothouse of the school they do enjoy a short semblance of life, but only the more surely to sink back afterward into mediocrity and insignificance. The world has been bettered only by the bad scholars.

Obiectivul atins nu reprezint? pentru ei un popas, ci punctul de plecare pentru noi n?zuin?e.

Every full grown emperor requires at least one war, otherwise he would not become famous.

Leer inleyerek kolunun üzerine yaslan?yor. Öyle bir kan?yor ki elimizden gelen yok. BoÅŸalan bir tüp gibi, birkaç dakika içinde çöküverdi. Okulda, matematikte birinci oluÅŸunun ÅŸimdi ona ne yarar? var ki?

Living better is the best revenge

A trecut de 21 de ani, Rosie. O sa fie doctor. Lasa-l sa-si foloseasca stetoscopul sa-si asculte propria inima.

Mais quand on rêve à de grandes choses, c'est pas simple de n'avoir sous la main que des petites choses.

This prolonging of a man's life doesn't interest me when he's done his work and has done it pretty well.

Upon learning that Hall was the man who had invented the typewriter she used so often, the girl put her arms around his neck and gave him a huge hug and kiss. Forever afterward, whenever Hall told this story of how he met Helen Keller, tears would fill his eyes.

All he asked of life was the best of everything.

He added beneath his name a single word: "Finis.

She eventually adopted the "gold collar" and married a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Wallace Riddle. She achieved her goal of creating a progressive boys' school as a memorial to her late father. She built it in Avon, Connecticut, and called it Avon Old Farms School, which exists today.

Captain Hall had no direct control over Room 40—as of early 1915 his intelligence division and Room 40 were separate entities—but his name more than any other would come to be associated with its achievements.