Quotes About Achievement

Even if we become glowing clouds of ectoplasm, there's going to be something we're competing for - and most of us will feel as though we're getting screwed.

In life, it's not about how hard you get hit. It's about how many times you get back up and how hard you're willing to keep fighting for your dreams.

I have never understood why "hard work" is supposed to be pitiable. True, some work is soul destroying when it is done against the grain, but when it is part of "making" how can you grudge it? You get tired, of course, but the struggle, the challenge, the feeling of being extended as you never thought you could be is fulfilling and deeply, deeply satisfying.

Is it easier to be than to do?

And If I fly or if I fall, at least I can say I gave it all.

Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.

Stick with the ones who have vision. The ones who can not only dream it, but can also make it happen. Stick with the winners, baby.

Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best.

It is freedom that allows ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

Adventure is when a child crawls across the floor, grabs the leg of a chair, and stands up for the first time.

Adventure is when a child crawls across the floor, grabs the leg of a chair, and stands up for the first time.  

When you're good at making excuses, it's difficult to excel at anything else.

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom!

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore.

I don't like doing anything that makes you sweat if you don't come at the end of it.

There's no shame in being second to Stephen Fry. Unless it's in a straight nose competition.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.

I say you ought to get rich, and it is your duty to get rich…. Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it! You ought because you can do more good with it than you could without it.

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia.

True greatness is often unrecognized.

Russell H. Conwell