Quotes about Achievement

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

He loved also to think, I did it! And I believe the only people who are free from that weakness are those who have no work to call their own.

A man must have a very rare genius to make changes of that sort. I am afraid mine would not carry me even to the pitch of doing well what has been done already, at least not so well as to make it worth while. And

It was said of him, that Lydgate could do anything he liked, but he had certainly not yet liked to do anything remarkable. He was a vigorous animal with a ready understanding, but no spark had yet kindled in him an intellectual passion; knowledge seemed to him a very superficial affair, easily mastered: judging from the conversation of his elders, he had apparently got already more than was necessary for mature life.

It is ever the trial of the scrupulous explorer to be saluted with the impatient scorn of chatterers who attempt only the smallest achievements, being indeed equipped for no other. And it were well if all such could be admonished to discriminate judgments of which the true subject-matter lies entirely beyond their reach, from those of which the elements may be compassed by a narrow and superficial survey.

No sooner does a woman show that she has genius or effective talent, than she receives the tribute of being moderately praised and severely criticised.

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.

I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.