Quotes About Achievement

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

The trouble with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

I experienced, too, the truth of the observation, "that after getting the first hundred pound, it is more easy to get the second," money itself being of a prolific nature.

Melakukan yang terbaik lebih baik daripada mengucapkan yang terbaik

one of the great autobiographies of the world.

Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men," I

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it.

Write a book worth reading or live a life worth writing

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.' Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never;

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

The honey doesn't taste so good once it is being eaten; the goal doesn't mean so much once it is reached; the reward is not so rewarding once it has been given.

The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don't look clearly and objectively at situations, they don't recognize or believe in their own abilities to overcome even the smallest amount of risk.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Maybe Virginia Woolf thought about going to the lighthouse, but I doubt she ever got there, or the novel might have ended differently.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.

And, 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.

I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.