Quotes About Achievement

What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.

Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves.

Success without hard work is like sauce without salt

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

First do the necessary, then do the feasible, then you will be able to achieve the impossible.

Good, better, best, never let it rest 'til the good is the better, and the better is the best

What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it?

God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.

Imagine who you could be, what you could accomplish-if only you could get out of your own way.

You limit your options every time you don't try your best.

What you get by reaching your goals is not nearly as important as what you become by reaching them. —Zig Ziglar

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. — JAMES B. MILLER

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

to Alexander the Great, who wept when there were no more worlds to conquer...

TRUTH #2: Desire is the root of suffering. It is the desire to achieve, to live, to make things tolerable and pleasant, and even better, that creates untold pain in the lives of men and women. Want nothing, and you shall not be disappointed.

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.

I've never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, 'don't try to fly too high,' or whether it might also be thought of as 'forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.

I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

By 1938, the Greek state had redistributed about 40 percent of all arable land in Greece, creating some 310,000 small family farms, a revolutionary achievement that took place without the kind of bloody agrarian conflict so common elsewhere.

Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.