Quotes About Achievement

if he failed to reach that level, Rockefeller would make up the difference.

To mark their new financial status

Gates was always mystified by Morgan's success.

While the GEB achieved remarkable things in upgrading southern education, it failed to deliver major results where it had originally wanted them most: in black education.

He preferred to portray his fortune as a pleasant accident, the unsought by-product of hard work.

A man who succeeds in life must sometimes go against the current.

He became so skillful that he built roads without an engineer.

The issue is much more complicated than that, but there's no doubt that Rockefeller's achievement arose from the often tense interplay between the two opposing, deeply ingrained tendencies of his nature—his father's daring and his mother's prudence—yoked together under great pressure.

He embodied an enduring archetype: the obscure immigrant who comes to America, re-creates himself, and succeeds despite a lack of proper birth and breeding.

Growing into leadership begins with self-leadership—which starts with discovering and nurturing the inner drive that will spur you to seemingly impossible achievements. That drive may be moving toward your passion, if you're lucky enough to know

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

Great things can be accomplished, when it doesnt matter who gets the credit.

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Nuestra democracia, con todos su fallos, es un logro inmenso de la Humanidad, Bruna. El resultado de muchos siglos de esfuerzo y sufrimiento. Escucha, el mundo se mueve, la sociedad se mueve, y cuanto más democrática, más movilidad y capacidad para cambiarla.

Aplastamos carbones con las manos desnudas y a veces conseguimos que parezcan diamantes

El éxito es un atributo de la mirada de los demás.

Marie Curie no fue sólo la primera mujer en recibir un premio Nobel y la única en recibir dos, sino también la primera en licenciarse en Ciencias en la Sorbona, la primera en doctorarse en Ciencias en Francia, la primera en tener una cátedra… Fue la primera en tantos frentes que resulta imposible enumerarlos. Una pionera absoluta. Un ser distinto.

Yo escribo. Es mi mayor victoria, mi conquista, el don del que me siento más orgullosa; y aunque las palabras están siendo devoradas por el gran silencio, hoy constituyen mi única arma

La fama es la versión más barata, inestable y artificial del triunfo.

I'm fourteen now, and sometimes I feel I've done nothing except go to school.

inside of three months had made his way from humble circumstances to the very front rank of American airmen.

Já foi dito que a conquista da glória é um processo que se inicia com um impulso destrutivo e se encerra com a "obtenção de um triunfo vingador".