Quotes About Achievement

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Did is a word of achievement, Won't is a word of retreat, Might is a word of bereavement, Can't is a word of defeat, Ought is a word of duty, Try is a word each hour, Will is a word of beauty, Can is a word of power.

All motivators are valid if they produce good work, son. And frustration can be a powerful motivator.

Figure out what your gift is,Edward Adler, and then blow that shit up.

Sylvie aced the classes she was interested in but got C's or D's in everything else. Julia had operated her determination like a lawn mower and mowed through high school with the next step in her sights.

You have to earn sleep,

I know it sounds silly, but I'm proud of myself. I guess for living a brave life.

Her father had called Julia his rocket ever since she was a little girl—I can't wait to watch you fly, he'd say—and she was the one who fixed problems.

ringing all the bells of adulthood.

She was one of those people who seemed to regard busyness as a contest you could win. p. 246

When she was in high school she had believed that white people wanted their children to be president of the United States; that most of them worked hard with that goal in mind. And if not president--well, perhaps a cabinet member.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.

You cannot step over a mountain," she told me, "but if you step over pebble by pebble, you'll look back and the mountain will be behind you.

[In response to a question about her legacy:] How about, "She changed the economic future of Texas." And that really beats what I feared my tombstone was going to say, and that was, "She kept a really clean house."

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

I look upon a year lived as a year earned; and each year earned means a greater treasury of experience and power laid up against time of need.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.

Philibert prenait toujours du chocolat au petit déjeuner et son plaisir, c'était d'éteindre le gaz juste avant que le lait déborde. Plus qu'un rite ou une manie, c'était sa petite vistoire quotidienne. Son exploit, son invisible triomphe. Le lait retombait et la journée pouvait commencer : il maîtrisait la situation.