Quotes about Achievement

Ad astra per aspera. (To the stars through difficulties.)

You know when everyone's watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

Nature is not to be conquered, man is.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

I want you to observe...that those who cry the loudest about their disillusionment, about the failure of virtue, the futility of reason, the impotence of logic—are those who have achieved the full, exact, logical result of the ideas they preached, so mercilessly logical that they dare not identify it.

The Romanticists did not present a hero as a statistical average, but as an abstraction of man's best and highest potentiality, applicable to and achievable by all men, in various degrees, according to their individual choices.