Quotes About Achievement

his small party arrived to find the war over and Caesar victorious.

Wanting to prove himself as a general, he invaded the rest of Gaul (central and northern France and Belgium).

By 49 B.C., he had added a huge new province to the empire

For himself he wanted a high command, an army and a war in some field where his gifts could shine in all their brightness.

Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, for example, had been about twenty-nine

his signet ring bearing the head of Alexander the Great.

Let your motto be, I lead. Strive to be best.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant "I try and I achieve.

Again, I found myself wondering what it must be like to work there, sitting in a room with those miniature urns, a constant reminder that everything you were and everything you'd achieved would one day fit inside.

I'm not going to get any

It would be nice to think that I could get to the end of a third outing with some of my reputation still intact.

There are, I think, occasions when you know that you have arrived at the end of a long journey, when even though your destination is concealed from sight, you are somehow aware that when you turn the corner that lies just ahead of you, there it will be.

It was my moment in the sun. I tried to remember if I had left anything out. But no, it was all there.

And that's exactly what we did.

After Lawrence died, she only had Damian and she doted on him. His success meant the world to her.

If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up.

my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . ." "I've never much cared for horror stories.

Finding the perfect job, perfect partner, or perfect place is as simple as perfecting yourself.

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.