Quotes About Achievement

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

He was eighteen feet from nose to tail, the fisherman who was measuring him called.

To hear him talk of it, you would never know how very good it was, except that he had the shyness about it that all non-conceited writers have when they have done something very fine, and I hoped he would get the book quickly so that I might read it.

For Whom the Bell Tolls was an immediate success. Hemingway wrote to his first wife, Hadley, that it was "selling like frozen daiquiris in hell."24 It has had tremendous impact and has been

It was like mentioning one general favourably to another general. You could always mention a general, though, that the general you were talking to had beaten. The general you were talking to would praise the beaten general greatly and go happily into detail on how he had beaten him.

You have youth, confidence and a job. You have everything.

Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted to be writers when we were young. I deplore the fact that you have not yet received a Nobel Prize, especially when it was given to so many who deserved it less, like me, who am only an adventurer.

The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength, and more strength he had just summoned, into the fish's side just behind the great chest fin that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man's chest. He felt the iron go in and he leaned on it and drove it further and then pushed all his weight after it.

Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so. I wish I was the fish, he thought, with everything he has against only my will and my intelligence.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

Si un día hemos de tener una conversación con Dios acerca de la medida de nuestras vidas, yo prefiero que Él me pregunte por qué intenté hacer demasiado, en lugar de que me pregunte por qué me conformé con tan poco.

Cuando llegues al final de tu vida, ¿podrás decir: "Di todo lo que tenía", o tendrás un sentimiento hueco dentro de tu alma de que te rendiste demasiado pronto, esperaste demasiado poco, que no golpeaste la última flecha?

It was sink or swim for him—and happens he's swimming.

I've been a sexual underachiever my whole life, and I resent Warren for feeling entitled to something that I won't allow for myself!

I've solved a problem that was thought to be unsolvable. . . . And I learned that only a small part of it is talent. The rest is determination. . . . The will is everything.

People punch up," he said. "They punch the ones who are better than them. Nobody likes a kid who does something well. That

a man needs to aspire to greatness and if he gives up on his hope for excellence, his soul dies

Oddly, with discipline, structure, and order, you will find freedom, anything is possible. Without it, locating your saddle may take all morning.

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome," Jimmy

Any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy.

Because any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy. But beyond that it is entirely up to you. You've got to do for yourself all the seeking and finding concerned with what you want to do. Anyone but yourself is useless to you there.

The problem was that the Duke wanted status not a job, to be recognised rather than to contribute.

The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by 'In Place of Strife'.