Quotes About Achievement

The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Success is a liar liars love success

Yo le diría: escucha a tus voces internas y respétalas antes de que te conviertas en un don nadie con éxito».

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

The goal of education is understanding; the goal of training is performance.

Frank Bettger

You can't collect your commission until you make the sale; You can't make the sale 'til you write the order; You can't write the order 'til you have an interview; And you can't have an interview 'til you make the call!

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

It's not a question of money. After you reach a certain point, money becomes unimportant. What matters is success. The sensible thing would be for me to stop now. But I can't. I have to keep aiming higher and higher just for the thrill.

A cynic once said that the most difficult part of success is finding someone who is happy for you.

My fear is that these kids are always going to be evaluating their self-worth in terms of whether they hit the next rung society has placed in front of them at exactly the time that society has placed it. And that's dangerous, because you're going to slip and fall in your life.

Sometimes your dreams come true.

One man, one film.

We walked on the moon. We made footprints somewhere no one else had ever made footprints, and unless someone comes and rubs them out, those footprints will be there forever because there's no wind.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Getting up, going to bed, preparing food, eating food--we futile creatures must struggle all the time. Nothing that we need comes to us; we must reach for everything.

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

Some men acheive insignificance. Others have insignificance thrust upon them.

The "secret" to success has always been the same: education and hard work.

There are runners and there are runners… and then there's Gale Sayers."

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.