Quotes about Achievement

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be all we can be, we must dream of being more.

They which run in a race run all, but one receives the crown. " But of us on the other hand it is said: " So run that you may obtain. " [ 1 Corinthians 9: 24 ] Our master of the games is not grudging; he does not give the palm to one and disgrace another. His wish is that all his athletes may alike win garlands.

To change one's disposition is a greater achievement than to change one's dress. It is harder for us to part with arrogance than with gold and gems.

victory is a byproduct of obedience.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

Thomas Sowell asserts that by the late 1960's, black men from families with a library card, magazines and other literature in the home reached high-level occupations as often as white males of similar backgrounds.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.