Quotes About Achievement

There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.

He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.

Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.

If you can dream it, you can write it. After all, a dream is just a dream until you bring it to fruition.

Exceptional success requires exceptional circumstances. Wayne Smith, former All Blacks assistant coach

The challenge is to always improve, to always get better, even when you are the best. Especially when you are the best.

El desafío consiste en mejorar siempre, en avanzar siempre, incluso cuando eres el mejor Especialmente cuando eres el mejor.

The challenge is to always improve, to always get better, even when you are the best. Especially when you are the best. Henry

Successful leaders balance pride with humility: absolute pride in performance; total humility before the magnitude of the task.

I feel like I'm slipping but do people who are actually slipping feel that way or is it always the really good people who are moving up who invariably think they're slipping because their standards are so high?" Arron Altman Broadcast News 1987

I feel like I'm slipping but do people who are actually slipping feel that way or is it always the really good people who are moving up who invariably think they're slipping because their standards are so high?

The morning sleeper Has much undone The quick will catch the prize.

He ran with a staggering gate the last few feet and managed to grab the quarterdeck

persistence is likely linked to high dopamine, so the higher the dopamine levels, the more you are likely to soldier on through adversity to achieve a particular goal.

Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and his wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.

If you have to do it, you can do it.

How did you do it?" we asked Don. "How did you make it to the top of Mount Rainier on one leg?" "One hop at a time," he said.

The difficult we can do immediately; the impossible will take a little longer.

Hermann Buhl with K2. First

The most grateful pilgrim is the one who has finished the longest journey.

Geniuses don't become geniuses until they find the right moron to compare themselves to.

Industry in art is a necessity—not a virtue—and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.