Quotes About Achievement

We are all well and satisfied with the amount and variety of work our good fortune has given us to do.

Ambition had been the curse of my husband's life. He wanted to attain a position where he would be honored and respected. He wanted wealth.

But one thing was quite clear…" he wrote. "[B]eing broke didn't disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time." Bloom went on to become a congressman and one of the crafters of the charter that founded the United Nations.

the money was to go only to those who had been incapacitated in life's battles: the crippled, the aged, the infirm. To those who could still struggle on, Sabin offered nothing. The privilege of struggling for achievement was the privilege of living, and to take away that right to struggle was equivalent to taking away life itself.

He looks on an education only as a magic formula, which should enable him to go through life without work.

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Necessity with the illusion of meaning would be the highest achievement for man; but when it becomes trivial there is no sense to one's life.

flexibility of the self was the achievement of a rare maturity

So we might say that pregnant silence is at the same time the most facile, as well as one of the highest, esthetic achievements.

to become conscious of what one is doing to earn his feeling of heroism is the main self-analytic problem of life.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

My big fish must be somewhere.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Finishing is what you have to do. If you don't finish, nothing is worth a damn

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

When it's right you can't remember. Every time you read it again it comes as a great and unbelievable surprise. You can't believe you did it. When it's once right you never can do it again. You only do it once for each thing. And you're only allowed so many in your life.

I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Writing is a hard business, but nothing makes you feel better

They all wanted something that i did not want and i would get it without wanting it, if it worked.

Churchill drank twice what I did if you could believe the accounts and he had just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. I was simply trying to step up my drinking to a reasonable amount when I might win the Prize myself; who knows?