Quotes About Achievement

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm...Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

A man is fed, not that he may be fed, but that he may work.

Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

The energy of the mind is commensurate with the work to be done.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent we have discovered afterward that much was accomplished and much was begun in us.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born; every thing impossible until we see a success.

In the East, fames are won. In the west, deeds are done.

Do the thing and you will have the power.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,—the sweet, without the other side,—the bitter.

Finish everyday and be done with it. You have done what you could.

Emerson's own best insight into fame is in his essay on Character. The most dismaying aspect of fame from the point of view of its possessor is not just that fame is generally disproportionate to actual achievement, but that the fame that we first assume to be a reward for work well done becomes instead an impossible promise of about future work. Fame casts an anticipatory chill over current efforts because it awakens expectations that can never fully be met.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone

genius since the world began; from the era of the Egyptians and

that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth; Caesar called his house, Rome; you perhaps call yours, a cobler's trade; a hundred acres of ploughed land; or a scholar's garret. Yet line for line and point for point, your dominion is as great as theirs, though without fine names.

All of a sudden the progress will stop one day, and you will find yourself, as it were, stranded. Persevere. All progress proceeds by such rise and fall."—Vivekananda

Dr. Martin Luther King said, 'If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper, who did his job well.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.

People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success.

Failure isn't losing, failure is mediocrity.

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.

To be able to accept the wonder and the marvel of one's own personality, however flawed or 'accidental,' and place it in and trust it to the hands of the One who made it, is one of the greatest achievements in life.