Quotes About Achievement

For some of us, one mile can be farther to walk than thirty

un de ces hommes qui atteignent un tel degré d'excellence à vingt et un ans, dans un domaine par ailleurs limité, que tout, après cela, ne peut avoir qu'un goût de défaite.

Nothing is written until you write it!

Be the best. There is no second place.

Failures mean nothing at all if success comes eventually. And that's a thought that should cheer you up and help you keep on keeping on when the going seems hard. Keep going! Each week, each month, you are improving. One day soon, you will find a way to do the thing that today looks impossible.

My great concern,' said Lincoln, "is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." Thomas Edison had ten thousand failures before he invented the incandescent bulb. Edison made up his mind that each failure brought him that much closer to success.

Frank Bettger

Frank Bettger

The inclination to consider UPenn, not attendance at UPenn, is the key to future earnings.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent.

The Zensunni approach to birth, he said, urging her even faster, is to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension. Do not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

You can say things which cannot be done. This is elementary. The trick is to keep attention focused on what is said and not on what can be done.

Grief is the price of victory

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic. —T. Robbins

Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

A victory is useless unless it reflects your deepest wishes.

she must always go the limit. Your abilities will take you farther than you imagine. Don't imagine, then. Extend yourself!

The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life-we went soft, we lost our edge.

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind.

To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Suferin?a e pre?ul victoriei.

not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.