Quotes about Achievement

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.

God helps him who strives hard.

When all fears of a possible worse thing are passed, there is in some sense peace and even glory.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe - why, intelligence never built a steam-engine! Circumstances built a steam-engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.

The world is so overgrown that it can't lift its own fingers, and I was planning to be such an important finger-

Nothing any good isn't hard.

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

hat a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe—why, intelligence never built a steam engine! Circumstances built a steam engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.

If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.