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 . . . ACHIEVEMENT see: "DEEDS" see "SUCCESS" for other related links Oh, but a man's reach must exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? --Andrea Del Sarto [Andrea D'Agnolo] (1486—1530) Italian painter and draftsman. That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. --Neil Armstrong (1930— ) American astronaut. When stepping onto the Moon in "New York Times" [21 July 1969]; interference in the transmission obliterated _a_ between "for" and "man." Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. --Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860—1937) Scottish writer and dramatist. _What Every Woman Knows_, Act IV He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find, The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_, Canto III [1816], Stanza 45 I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention and labor, make himself whatever he pleases, except a great poet. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773) British writer and politician. You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed. --Frederick Douglass [Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey] (c.1818—1895) American abolitionist, reformer, and writer. In Daryl Cumber Dance _From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore_, p. 470 [2002]. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. --Albert Einstein (1879—1955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. _Out Of My Later Years_ [1950] I have now for more than a year, I believe, ceased to write in my journal, in which I formerly wrote almost daily. I see few intellectual persons, and even those to no purpose, and sometimes believe that I have no new thoughts, and that my life is quite at an end. But the magnet that lies in my drawer, for years, may believe it has no magnetism, and, on touching it with steel, it knows the old virtue; and, this morning, came by a man with knowledge and interests like mine, in his head, and suddenly I had thoughts again. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) American philosopher and poet. _Journal_ [April 1859] The starting point of all achievement is desire. --Napoleon Hill (1883—1970) American journalist, lawyer, and author of self-help books. No man can ever rise above that that which he aims. --Alexander Hodge (1823—1886) American theologian. Those who believe they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. --Aldous Huxley (1894—1963) English novelist {grandson of T.H. Huxley}. _Proper Studies_ [1927] "Note on Dogma" It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791]. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. --Robert F. Kennedy (1925—1968) American Democratic politician. Speech to the National Union of South African students [7 June 1966]. Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are fingerposts on the road to achievement. --Charles F. Kettering (1876—1958) American inventor. Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. --Doug Larson There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations; they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate whom they are accustomed to look down upon. --John Stuart Mill (1806—1873) English philosopher and social reformer. _On Liberty_ [1859] Ch. 3, "Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being" If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. --Napoleon I (1769—1821) Emperor of France [1804—1815]. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. --attributed to Norman Vincent Peale (1898—1993) American preacher and author. Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people. --Nido Qubein When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a moment longer, never give up then — for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. --Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811—1896) American writer and philanthropist. [Sister of Henry Ward Beecher, daughter of Lyman Beecher]. Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It is not a day when you lounge around doing nothing: it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. --Margaret Thatcher (1925— ) British conservative stateswoman and Prime Minister [1979-1990]. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. --William Arthur Ward (1921—1994) American college administrator and author. I always turn to the sports page first. The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. --Earl Warren (1891—1974) American jurist, the 14th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1953—1969]. In Marabel Morgan _Total Joy_ [1976]. Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it because someone else is not sure of you. --Stewart E White (1873—1946) American author. - There are two ways to get to the top of an oak tree - you can climb it or you can sit on an acorn. --anon. ----- ne plus ultra nee-plus-UL-truh; noun: The highest point, as of excellence or achievement; the acme; the pinnacle; the ultimate.  . . see: "CREDIT (ACKNOWLEDGEMENT)" see "KINDNESS" for other related links The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence. --Sue Atchley Ebaugh The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. Though I've belted you an' flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din! --Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936) English writer and poet. _Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads_, "Gunga Din" st. 5, [1892—1893] There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. In Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 206 [1908]. Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song. --Rabindranath Tagore (1861—1941) Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, and painter who won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature. . . see "FRIENDS / FRIENDSHIP" see: "NEIGHBORS" It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion. --Francis Bacon (1561—1626) English philosopher and essayist. - An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. --Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906] (Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.) Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous. --Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906] (Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.) - end page | ABILITY - ABUSE | ACADEMY AWARDS - ACCUSTOMED | ACHIEVEMENT - ACQUAINTANCE | ACTIONS | ACTORS / ACTING | ACTUARIES - ADVERSARIES | ADVERSITY - ADVERTISING | ADVICE | AFFAIRS - AFGHANISTAN | AGE | AGNOSTICS - AIRPLANES | ALCOHOL | ALIBI - AMBITION | AMERICA PAGE 1 (A-M) | AMERICA PAGE 2 (N-Z) | AMERICANS | AMERICAN INDIANS | AMERICAN REVOLUTION | AMUSEMENT - ANCESTORS | ANGER | ANIMAL RIGHTS & ANIMALS | ANIMOSITIES - APATHY | APOLOGY & APPEARANCE | APPEASEMENT | APPLAUSE - APRIL | ARCHAEOLOGISTS - ARCHITECTURE | ARGUMENT | ARISTOCRACY - ART | ASHAMED - ASTROLOGY | ATHEISM | ATOM BOMB - ATTRACTION | AUSTRALIA | AUTHORITY - AUTOMOBILES | AUTUMN - AWARENESS | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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