Quotes About Achievement

The finest gift you can give anyone is encoragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work," he said. "I want to achieve it by not dying." But

I am what I have become

Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

One day the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Last year, Eddie hadn't been strong enough to make the team. This year, he was stronger and bigger, a lot bigger, like he could be a model for a bodybuilding magazine. It was almost certain he would make the team this year.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Less flapping, more flying!

If you are HUMAN, then the limit of what you can do, what you learn, what you can experience HAS NOT YET BEEN REACHED.

The less you think and the more you do, the better things tend to become.

Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller.

[Discoveries] are sent to you in strange ways. Grab them while you can. I'll take that as my scientific legacy.

You cannot race somebody else's race. The prize will never be yours if you're running in the wrong lane.

And ultimately, every effort does bear fruit.

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

I could have been a contender, if I'd cared enough.

Craig leapt spryly out of the way. He was in a good mood. He'd just received an e-mail from Angel Resources informing him that he'd clinched another Angel of the Month award. The prize was pretty good this time: a coupon for a medium pizza of his choice. There was some fine print on the back of the coupon: deep-dish pies cost extra, he couldn't order more than three meat toppings, and the offer expired in fifteen days.

Lust? Who's talking about lust? You want to screw her, right? So that's your objective. All you need now is deployment of the appropriate tactics to manoeuvre her into an advantageous position and then secure your conquest. Then it's just a question of mopping up.

1894-5, he won straight 5s (A grades) for Georgian singing and language and scores like 4, 5, 4, 5 in scripture. He was a model student, earning an 'excellent 5' for behaviour.

All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.

I had this very rare privilege of being able to pursue in my life what had been my childhood dream. I know it's a rare privilege, but if you can tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything imaginable." - Andrew Wiles

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

Pain is proof of something worthwhile.