Quotes About Achievement

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

It is possible to fail in many ways… while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away.

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few brief minutes and then the wind blows away your footprints

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life striving after something he thinks will make him so

Never use a clip from a movie you cannot match or surpass.

But, most important of all, he knew that he had won a great victory over himself. He had forced himself to do something that he dreaded, something that took every ounce of his will.

Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.

Remember, your highest goal is learning, and only in action does true, experiential learning occur. This is what you climb for.

Do you love to challenge and test yourself on a difficult climb, or do you simply love the feeling of accomplishment or the praise from your peers once the climb is over?

Second, the work is a process, and that process lasts a lifetime. Every time you gain a new plateau, a massif of unrealized potential soars above you. In this sense, you never "arrive," once and for all, on the mountaintop.

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all cost of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top.

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

n idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.