Quotes About Achievement

She brags that she once earned one

The reward for all high performance must be sought within itself or sought in vain.

Pull yourself together, Selena, she chided. Fix this. End this. Write a better headline.

keys to get

Point! -Alicia

With no one to share it with, success would be just another reminder that she was alone.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. William Shakespeare.

Count the deed, not the thought.

Think only on the climb. Think on what you control

There was never any comfortable way to mention or discuss one's successes without breaking the rule against bragging, even if one didn't mean to.

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, It isn't fair about everything else.

I'm going to win the girls' race this week.

One step at a time," Vorkosigan returned grimly, "I can walk around the world. Watch me.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can't be given.

Miles was…the thing is, he was afflicted with a severe birth injury. He grew up pretty much crippled, so he poured all his frustrated energy into his intellect. Since the Vorkosigan family motto might as well be, Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving , the effect was pretty frightening. And it worked for him, so he did it some more.

Real destiny takes everything—the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure—and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.

a great man. But...not quite great enough.

If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?

Identity. That's my elephant. The thought came with certainty, without the question mark on the end this time. Not fame, exactly, though recognition was some kind of important cement for it. But what you were was what you did. And I did more, oh yes. If a hunger for identity were translated into, say, a hunger for food, he'd be a more fantastic glutton than Mark ever dreamed of being. Is it irrational, to want to be so much, to want so hard it hurts? And how much, then, was enough?

Ivan: ] "... you haven't let the lack of half-marks stop you. Or the rules. Or respect for reality, as afar as I can tell." [Miles:] "I never let anything stop me. That's how you get what you want, Ivan. No one's going to just hand it to you.