Quotes About Achievement

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air, and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it . . . if you think of, detail by detail, what you have to do next, it is a wonderful dream even if the end is a long way off, for there are about five thousand steps to be taken before we realize it; and start making the first ten, and stay making twenty after, it is amazing how quickly you get through those five thousand steps.

In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it.What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. —Jim Rohn

I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

His [the author's] renown… has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.

It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

One uncontrolled character flaw can ruin your greatest accomplishment.

Only adversity provides the opportunity for greatness.

The 1962 Mets went 40-120, losing more games than any ball club in the twentieth century and finishing 60½ games out of first place. This is not easy to do.

It's impossible for me to separate the miracle that we achieved as a team with the memories and gratitude I have for all the people who helped me get there, from my mother and father, my sisters and brothers, to 10 years worth of coaches and friends and teammates.

A leader's role is not to maintain. It is to gain altitude!

You will never get what you don't ask for. You can't find what you aren't looking for. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be