Quotes about Achievement

The world you desire can be won. It exists...it is real...it is possible...it's yours.

There was a great satisfaction to be found in the food which we need and obtain by our own hand.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

He looked at the granite. To be cut, he thought, and made into walls. He looked at a tree. To be split and made into rafters. He looked at a streak of rust on the stone and thought of iron ore under the ground. To be melted and to emerge as girders against the sky. These rocks, he thought, are waiting for me; waiting for the drill, the dynamite and my voice; waiting to be split, ripped, pounded, reborn; waiting for the shape my hands will give them.

and the desire would never be satisfied, except by a being of equal greatness.

You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I—I'll take what nobody can give a man, except himself.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single glimpse of clean, hard, radiant competence. She had fits of tortured longing for a friend or enemy with a mind better than her own.

There's no surer way to destroy a man than to force him into a spot where he has to aim at not doing his best, where he has to struggle to do a bad job, day after day.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

there are lots of things you want to do before your life is over.

We are very very small. But we are profoundly capable of very very big things.