Quotes About Achievement

O sucesso sempre incomoda os medíocres ambiciosos, os sonhadores incapazes, os fracassados em geral.

we are not humans from the start; we need to become human. Toward this end, we need the insight "that only we are responsible for ourselves, that accusations that we have missed our life's calling can be directed only at us, not some higher powers". We are in no need of the delusion of a supernatural world, because the very task of becoming human is the truly colossal achievement.

For Kim did nothing with an immense success.

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!

if I want a crown I must go and hunt it for myself.

If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the Earth and everything in it...

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.

El éxito comienza en la voluntad

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it

Wanting is the beginning of getting.' Vincent said that often. "Then why don't people get things?" Asked Lovejoy. "Because they don't want hard enough." Certainly no one could have accused Vincent or Lovejoy of that.

Russell Simmons

They were all overachievers with exploding heads, and this was not a good thing . . . or was it?

Congratulations, the new slip said. You made it.

But I have always been persuaded that someday, when I grow up, I am destined for great things. And then I wonder when, exactly, I expect that will be.

What I want most for you is challenging work that makes you proud. It's the key to happiness.

This would be a feather in its cap.

Pealegi tabab karistus täitmatu ahnuse eest inimest alati siis - ja just seles seisneb karistuse piinarikas, hävituslik jõud - , kui tal on tunne, et ihaldatud eesmärgini on jäänud vaid samm.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but it is what I do.

The tedium vitae so constant in antiquity was due to the fact that the outstanding individual was what others could not be ; the inspiration of modern times will be that any man who finds himself, religiously speaking, has only achieved what every one can achieve .

It is unbelievable what a person of prayer can achieve if he would but close the doors behind him.

let us speak of the wish and thereby of the sufferings; let us properly linger over this, convinced that one may learn more profoundly and more reliably what the highest is by considering suffering than by observing achievements, where so much that is distracting is present.

greatness of that with which he strove. For he who strove with the world became great by overcoming the world, and he who strove with himself became great by overcoming himself, but he who strove with God became greater than all.