Quotes About Achievement

Considera qué niña más excepcional eres! ¡Considera lo muy lejos que has llegado hoy! ¡Considera la hora que es! ¡Considera cualquier cosa, pero no llores!

so long as I get somewhere, Alice added as an explanation. Oh, your sure to do that, said the Cat, if you only walk long enough.

Oh! Siempre llegarás a alguna parte, si caminas lo suficiente

He was one of those men whom success never mollified, whose enjoyment of a point gained always demanded some hoarse note of triumph from his own trumpet.

By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back, the fight was over

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

Wow, you're awesome and The universe loves a winner, so the universe must really love you!

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

Corro porque puedo, porque debo. Porque quiero ver hasta dónde puedo llegar antes de tener que parar.

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.

Hale was among the first in a very long line of women who stepped far beyond the home but had phenomenal success in telling other women that the home was where they belonged.

Never use limitations as an excuse for mediocrity.

excitement of it. He'd been the golden boy

Tree-ear has taken his first step toward his dream. Realizing a dream can be very hard, though. Sometimes, a dream can seem so far away, it almost disappears. But maybe if Tree-ear takes it one hill, one valley, one day at a time, just maybe, he'll be able to make his dream come true.

And one day at a time, the group made its way to Kenya. More than twelve hundred boys arrived safely. It took them a year and a half.

Misfortunes they ascribe to the injustice of Fate or of God, and think they are to be pitied because of them; if a stroke of luck comes, it is an achievement of their own.

Irresponsible is only irresponsible if you fail. Succeed, however; and irresponsible quickly becomes merely unorthodox.

This new generation, they've been raised by their parents to assume they'll start at the top. No scut for them. They'll just sit in their parents' basement till the job offer for partner comes in.

being a math genius doesn't necessarily translate to financial gain. Lots of geniuses die poor.

Clearly Livia had mad skills. Which meant she also had a way out of her impoverished, drug-dealing, crime-ridden family life. Her education combined with her natural ability—the sky should've been the limit. So what went wrong? Why wasn't she still at school, perfecting more pumpkins and fidget doohickeys and manufacturing molds while preparing to launch the next great

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I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.

For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.