Quotes about Achievement

Good, better, best never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best.

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

There's no need to be jealous of others' life, for the achievements that they got by chance. Why rely purely on luck when you can also achieve your goals through working hard?

Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

A victory is useless unless it reflects your deepest wishes.

We came from Caladan - a paradise world for our form of life. There existed no need on Caladan to build a physical paradise or a paradise of the mind - we could see the actuality all around us. And the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life - we went soft, we lost our edge.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Putnam increased the first print run to 75,000 copies, more than any science fiction hardcover printing in history.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

We run to win, not just to be in the race.