Quotes About Achievement

If I go to Stanfurd, I can get a good job and not have to sell oranges by the side of the highway.

Three out of every four recruits never made it through the course, and trainers were

Therefore I cannot but see and feel that time is passing, and I with it, and yet I would not like to go without performing some great action to serve as a monument to my name. What is lost today will not be found tomorrow and I have done nothing so far to cover myself with glory.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." —Earl Nightingale

Climb every mountain , Ford Every stream Follow every rainbow ,'Till you find your dream

It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.

The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.

Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the knitter it is an indication to write a will, bequeathing the stash to an appropriate heir.

Hal...cleared his throat."....Doing the hard stuff's what makes it an adventure.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.

You're the only one that can put pressure on yourself... No one else can put pressure on you. It's self-inflicted. For me, I just want to go out and play football.

The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.

There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

No man is really changed by success. What happens is that success works on the man's personality like a truth drug, bringing him out of the closet and revealing… what was always inside his head.

In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.

To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously.