Quotes About Achievement

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election

After fifteen years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical will power, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.

Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Its chief purpose is to help towards filling in the framework which is made up of the talents and capabilities that each individual possesses.

It was only natural that the hardships of his youth should enhance his subsequent achievement in his eyes, particularly since it resulted exclusively from his own energy and iron diligence. It was the pride of the self-made man which made him want his son to rise to the same position in life, or, of course, even higher if possible, especially since, by his own industrious life, he thought he would be able to facilitate his child's development so greatly.

Hard reality alone must mark the way to the goal. Unwillingness to walk the road of hardship means, only too often in this world, the total renunciation of one's aims and purposes-whether consciously willed or not.

T]he individual man, provided he wants to achieve some great end... must always concentrate his efforts on one definitely limited stage of his progress, which has to be completed before the next step is attempted. Those who don't attempt to realize their aims step by step, and who don't concentrate their energy in reaching the individual stages, will never attain the final objective.

Obstacles are placed across our path not to be boggled at, but to be surmounted.

What does a title mean to me? I do not need a title. My name, which I achieved with my own strength, is my title. I only wish that posterity would sometime confirm the fact that I have striven to achieve my program decently and honestly..

If you want to shine like the sun, first you have to burn like it.

Nothing, which is great in this world, was given as a gift to man. Everything had to be bitterly, difficulty won in struggle. Speech of May 1, 1933 in Berlin

if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

Human progress and human cultures are not founded by the multitude, they are the works of personal genius and personal efficiency

It wasn't often that anyone admitted their mistakes to Mercedes; the default posture of poverty was defense. Cesar told her that he hoped his degree would make Mercedes proud of him when he came home.

The past four decades have seen one of the most depressing developments in the history of the meritocratic idea: the marriage between merit and money.

In meritocratic society, people are individuals before they are anything else: masters of their fates and captains of their souls.32

The faithful drudging child the child at the oak desk whose penmanship, hard work, style will win her prizes becomes the woman with a mission, not to win prizes but to change the laws of history.

The passion I had for being a goalkeeper made me follow the career of Rogerio Ceni.

I look at composers and conductors, anybody involved in music or writing or art in general; they got more done as they got older. If I can, I'll be one of those people because what I do is my passion.

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.

If you end up doing what you are passionate about, the journey is so easy.

At Microsoft, we know first-hand how passionate entrepreneurs can change the world. We believe that technology can empower everyone to achieve more.

A win is a win, and I've just always felt that way, and I've always been passionate about that.