Quotes About Achievement

deserves your best every day of your life.

I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know.

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.

She said that instead of conquering Everest, I could conquer the conqueror of Everest and while he had to go climb the mountain, I could stay home in lazy comfort listening to the radio and eating chocolates. She was upset, I suppose, but you can't imbibe someone's success by fucking them.

If you are a woman and wish to become pre-eminent in a field, it's a good idea to (a) invent it and (b) locate it in an area either so badly paid or of such low status that men don't want it

I know you're competent and your thesis advisor knows you're competent. The question in our minds is are you really serious about what you're doing?" This was said to a young woman who had already spent five years and over $10,000 getting to that point in her Ph.D. program.

I think it no accident that the myth of the isolated achievement so often promotes women writers' less good work as their best work.

I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.

MIENTRAS MENOS FALLEMOS MAS GANAREMOS; MIENTRAS MAS NOS PREPAREMOS MAS AVANZAREMOS" Joaquín Rodrigues

He gained a world; he gave that worldIts grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"

There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible ' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.

Lewis said sadly to me, 'When I at last realized that I was not, after all, going to be a great man...' I think he meant 'a great poet.

If you imagine where you want to go, you stand a much better chance of getting there.

Triumph comes through perserverance.

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

White-supremacist-patriarchal-heteronormative-capitalism socializes us to aspire to "good Negro" status. It convince little Black girls from East Oakland to graduate from Howard—summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, to pledge the oldest Black sorority, to earn PhDs, to be in the "right" rooms…" - Melina Abdullah

One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.

But enemies, as his mother used to say, are the price of success.

It's not easy is it? Being a great man's son. You'd thought that would come with all kinds of advantages - with borrowed admiration, and respect. But it's only as easy as it is for the seeds of a great tree, trying to grow in its choking shadow. Not many make it to the sunlight for themselves.

A King must win. The rest is dust.

One step at a time,' he muttered to himself as he clambered up the slope. That was the only way to look at it. If you clenched your teeth hard enough, and took enough strides, you could get anywhere. One painful, weary, freezing, guilty step at a time.

If you clenched your teeth hard enough, and took enough strides, you could get anywhere. One painful, weary, freezing, guilty step at a time.

Let us not fail, my ladies. Let us do more, always do more than we think we're capable of. As we embark on this journey, ask yourself now and every day—every bad day, every good day—if you have done your best." She paused; then, as she slowly swept her gaze around our little assembled entourage again, she said, "Ask yourself even now—especially now—as in the words of the poet Edgar Guest, 'Have you earned your tomorrow?