Quotes About Achievement

Knowledge plus action is power

Success breeds success while broke breeds broke

Success breeds success remember that

Oh, I'm good. Seriously, after all these years, you'd think I would stop amazing myself. But here I am, still doing it.

Aim high, hit low.

You can do this, he thought. Just make it to that Hole.

So we've had to up the ante, and now it's time for Phase Two. It's time for things to get difficult.

He had to focus on the future or he'd never reach it.

meant it. For the first time in his life, he was both free and safe, as costly as the accomplishment had been. Then

And so, we have failed. But we have also succeeded.

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.

I think there is only one form of greatness for man. If a man can bridge the gap between life and death. I mean, if he can live on after he has died, then maybe he was a great man. To me the only success, the only greatness, is immortality.

No pretendo ser el mejor. Únicamente quiero volar tan alto que nadie pueda alcanzarme. No para demostrar nada, sólo quiero llegar a donde se llega cuando entregas tu vida entera y todo lo que eres a una única cosa.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

While man exists in this mortal state he needs some of the things of the world; he must have food and clothing and provision for shelter; and beside these bare necessities he may righteously desire the facilities of education, the incidentals of advancing civilization, and the things that are conducive to refinement and culture; yet all of these are but aids to achievement, not the end to attain which man was made mortal.

One of Watson's many passionately held beliefs was that too many people failed to fulfil their potential because they didn't make enough effort to use their brains. He insisted that the word 'THINK' be posted on placards around C-T-R's offices and also on people's desks.

Hollerith was at heart an academic inventor whose commercial success, though not his technological achievement, had in a sense been something of an accident. Watson believed that in business, as in life, things did not happen by accident but because you willed them to happen and took the practical steps to turn your wishes into reality. For Watson, making customers happy was the most serious thing in the world. Hollerith, though, was much more interested in technical issues.

No excuses will lead to no regrets which will give you no limits to your potential.

The calendar says we are half way from 2000 to 2015.But the reality is that we are we are a million miles away from success.

Several passages induced the shiver of aesthetic bliss in my spine that Nabokov famously described as the indicator of good and true writing. The whole thing is by turns hilarious and hilariously sad, artfully pin-holed with melancholy (my favorite drink)… Empty the Sun is an impressive achievement, as well as an excellent and I believe as yet unused name for a rock band.

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.