Quotes About Achievement

To ascend, to stretch a hand up the mountainside until a hand catches it, was the end for which he had been born.

John Stuart MillBy a mighty effort of willOvercame his natural bonhomieAnd wrote Principles of Political Economy.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

In America, here is how we operate: We work for what we want, and we get ahead. We never take no for answer, and we deserve the rewards of our perseverance.

Granddad's voice boomed across the yard. "This is the United States of America," he said. "You don't seem to understand that, Penny, so let me explain. In America, here is how we operate: We work for what we want, and we get ahead. We never take no for answer, and we deserve the rewards of our perseverance. Will, Taft, are you listening?

And he felt dubious and discontented suddenly, and wondered whether he was really and truly successful as a human being.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

Ah, it is impossible." "No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!

Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.

You are like the angel in Cole's picture of life! You point the youth to the far-up temple of fame-" "And leave him to get there as he can? Not at all, madam!

I begin to think a body may get any reasonable thing in this world if they will only try hard enough for it!

That power of holding on to an image that Ruskin describes so admirably is not the power of the eidetic; it is that faculty of keeping a large number of relationships present in one's mind that distinguishes all mental achievement, be it that of the chess player, the composer, or the great artist.

It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored.

Fed by neither Heaven nor by Earth he was going forward . . . He hadn't a God or a lover--the two usual incentives to virtue. But on he struggled with his back to ease, because dignity demanded it. There was no one to watch him, nor did he watch himself, but struggles like his are the supreme achievements of humanity, and surpass any legends about Heavan.

Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child.

The Waves is an extraordinary achievement ... It is trembling on the edge. A little less - and it would lose its poetry. A little more - and it would be over into the abyss, and be dull and arty. It is her greatest book.

He took no interest in politics, which ruin the character and career, yet nothing can be achieved without them.

The aims of battle and the fruits of conquest are never the same;

It was a land of facilities, where nothing had to be striven for, and success was indistinguishable from failure.

They had all passed up that narrow, rich staircase at Wickham Place to some ample room, whither he could never follow them, not if he read for ten hours a day. Oh, it was no good, this continual aspiration. Some are born cultured; the rest had better go in for whatever comes easy. To see life steadily and to see it whole was not for the likes of him.

I was afraid I wrote neither well enough nor ill enough for success.

A man's reach must exceed his grasp, dear boy, or what the dickens is a heaven for?

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.