Quotes About Achievement

The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.

Marc Maron's podcast success has nothing to do with my podcast success. If I do a quarter of a million downloads, I can show that to an advertiser as a fact, and that's that.

Oh, well, I'd like to have commercial success. I guess.

If you think success will make you happy, you have it backwards.

I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.

lo mejor es enemigo de lo bueno.

there are twenty-four hours in a day, sixty minutes in an hour and sixty seconds in a minute. A lot can be done in eighty-six thousand four hundred seconds.

I have only two enemies: I shall not say two conquerors, because with persistence I can make them bow to my will: they are distance and time. The third and most awful is my condition as a mortal man. Only that can halt me on the path I have chosen before I have reached my appointed goal. Everything else is planned for.

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Good fortune is like the palaces of the enchanted isles, the gates of which were guarded by dragons. Happiness could only be obtained by overcoming these dragons

Bence insan bu kadar kolayca mutlu olmak için yarat?lmad?! Mutluluk, büyülü adalarda kap?lar?n? ejderhalar?n beklediÄŸi saraylar gibidir. Onu elde etmek için savaÅŸmak gerekir.

Ho l'impressione che l'uomo non possa essere felice così facilmente! La felicità è come quei palazzi delle isole incantate alle cui porte stanno a difesa i draghi: bisogna combattere per conquistarli.

Albert seized it and put it victoriously into his buttonhole

However anxious one is to reach one's goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.

Mas, se não há inimigos, talvez haja invejosos: aos dezenove anos, vai ser nomeado capitão, o que na sua situação é um posto bem elevado… Vai se casar com uma bela mulher que o ama, o que é uma felicidade rara em qualquer lugar da terra… Esses dois favores de seu destino podem ter lhe proporcionado invejosos.

El orgullo de quienes no pueden edificar es destruir.

I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done.

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Je suis venu à Paris avec quatre écus dans ma poche, et je me serais battu avec quiconque m'aurait dit que je n'étais pas en état d'acheter le Louvre.

It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing

Le bonheur est comme ces palais des îles enchantées dont les dragons gardent les portes. Il faut combattre pour le conquérir. Alexandre Dumas, Le comte de Monte-Cristo, chapitre 5

And now, As I come near the end of this book in which I have recorded so many considerable achievements of the Americans, if I am asked how we should account for the unusual prosperity and growing strength of this nation, I would reply that they must be attributed to the superiority of their woman.

When we set children against one another in contests—from spelling bees to awards assemblies to science "fairs" (that are really contests), from dodge ball to honor rolls to prizes for the best painting or the most books read—we teach them to confuse excellence with winning, as if the only way to do something well is to outdo others.