Quotes About Achievement

to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther....And one fine morning-

My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achievement was a placing of emphasis-- a moulding of the confusion of life into form.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. And if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Doctor Dougall was wrong. It was tempermentally impossible for Amory to get the best marks in school.

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances... Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of circumstances.

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being. This, too, was quite characteristic of Amory.

he considered that he would one day accomplish some quiet subtle thing that the elect would deem worthy and, passing on, would join the dimmer stars in a nebulous, indeterminate heaven half-way between death and immortality.

Life is a series of successful gestures...

In this state he considered that he would one day accomplish some quiet subtle thing that the elect would deem worthy and, passing on, would join the dimmer stars in a nebulous, indeterminate heaven half-way between death and immortality

They stood an uncomfortable little group weighted down by Abe's gigantic presence: he lay athwart them like the wreck of a galleon, dominating with his presence his own weakness and self-indulgence, his narrowness and bitterness. All of them were conscious of the solemn dignity that flowed from him, of his achievement, fragmentary, suggestive and surpassed. But they were frightened at his surviving will, once a will to love, now become a will to die.

This was his healthy state and it made him cheerful, pleasant, and very attractive to intelligent men and to all women. In this state he considered that he would one day accomplish some quiet subtle thing that the elect would deem worthy and, passing on, would join the dimmer stars in a nebulous, indeterminate heaven halfway between death and immortality.

There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe--why, intelligence never built a steam engine! Circumstances built a steam engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.

He felt that to succeed here the idea of success must grasp and limit his mind.

If you want to be prominent, get out and try for something.

It's like lifting off in an airplane: you're on the ground, on the ground, on the ground... and then you're up, riding on a magical cushion of air and prince of all you survey. That makes me happy, because it's what I was made to do.

I possess the most valuable experience, the experience of the race, for in spite of going to college I've managed to pick up a good education.

we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther….

we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…. And one fine morning——

My life, my life has to be like this. It has to keep going up.

limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax. His family were enormously

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

I wish I was in print. It will be odd a year or so from now when Scottie assures her friends I was an author and finds that no book is procurable.

Înving?torii aparÈ›in pr?zii.

In America, no matter how poor you started out or where you came from, you could go as high as you wanted if you were willing to work for it.