Quotes About Achievement

inch by inch will make it cinch ,yard by yard will make it hard.

a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. . . . Always have something ahead of you to 'look forward to'—to work for and hope for

long streaks are extraordinary luck imposed on great skill.

Abraham Lincoln) liked to remind citizens that "Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Antiochus shall act prosperously according to his mental perception, and shall be so assisted by' his craftiness, as to obtain whatever he shall grasp at.

No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

Discovering what your goals are can be the toughest part of achieving them.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

The point of this hard work isn't to prove anything to anyone, only to transcend your own limitations.

I sometimes marvel that a third-rate writer like me has been able to palm himself off as a second-rate writer.

This morning I had not so much as carfare. Now I am here, on velvet. You are itching to learn of this haven; you would like to organize trips here, spoil it, send your relations-in-law, perhaps even come yourself. After all, this journal will hardly fall into your hands till I am dead. I'll tell you. I am at Bracey's Giant Emporium, as happy as a mouse in the middle of an immense cheese, and the world shall know me no more.

what human beings did: they tried and failed and failed again, and they kept failing until either they got it right at last or time ran out and they had to settle for what they had.

Funny, that. For so long Wormwood had desired the throne and then, when he'd had it, it hadn't been worth desiring after all.

It is by a process of simplification carried constantly further and further that happiness is won.

They wanted eternal life; he gave them perpetual motion. It comes to the same thing, for such a race.

A successful life is a string of successful days

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.

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