Quotes About Achievement

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.

Our stumbling blocks are transformed into building blocks.

I took the book and placed it in the section for "new arrivals" and just looked at it there. Nothing I had ever done as a writer made me prouder than seeing my novel on a shelf in my childhood library.

I'll spread my wings, and I'll learn how to fly I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.

Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans—I would choose—because it contains all the others—the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make money." No other language or nation had ever used these words before…. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

He was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit'. And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

I have no idols. I respect hard work, dedication and competence

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.