Quotes About Achievement

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

I am glad something happened to give you what you wanted.

The ultimate achievement of mankind would be, not just self-destruction, but the destruction of all life; the transformation of the living world into a dead planet.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

Now Rosie smiled to herself as she gazed around her at the bustle of human traffic around the station, each person with their own story, their own dreams. She had done all right. She'd come a long way. Her mother and father would have been proud.

The greatest virtue consists in flourishing to the greatest of our capacities.

I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

Would you take credit for someone else's achievement when you had nothing to do with that achievement?" Ilya asked. "No." "Then don't take credit for someone else's mistakes.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

Where we can open up new opportunities for women's self-expression, enjoyment, and achievement we should do it because it is morally right. But that is very different from saying that gender has no biological basis and that the nature of men and women is wholly constructed by society. The problem with such a position is that it fails to address the issue of why sex differences take the particular form that they do.

SPIRIT RULES SECRETLY ALONE THE BODY ACHIEVES NOTHINGis something you knowinstinctively at fourteen and can still remember even with hell in your headat sixteen.

You see the sun?—I built that.

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

Men—most people, in fact—value the hard-won prize over that which comes to them easily, don't you think?" Excerpt From: "Marry in Haste

Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

Tight on goals, loose on means" is how U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has described his expectations of accountability systems, and that phrase aptly describes our aim for curriculum. When the means of learning are restrictive, the goals of learning get warped.18

it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.

When you pursue the impossible, you will achieve incredible things.

I'd won the world but like a forsaken explorer, I'd lost my map.