Quotes About Achievement

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.

In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

A gun will give you the body, not the bird

What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once done well is done forever.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Some travellers tell us that an Indian had no name given him at first, but earned it, and his name was his fame; and among some tribes he acquired a new name with every new exploit. It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame

The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in the mind

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

Now comes good sailing.

The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could never see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated.

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever. But we love better to talk about it: that we say is our mission. Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

At present our only true names are nicknames. I knew a boy who, from his peculiar energy, was called "Buster" by his playmates, and this rightly supplanted his Christian name. Some travelers tell us that an Indian had no name given him at first, but earned it, and his name was his fame; and among some tribes he acquired a new name with every new exploit. It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

Some travelers tell us that an Indian had no name given him at first, but earned it, and his name was his fame; and among some tribes he acquired a new name with every new exploit.

We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us.

Some are dining in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or even the Elizabethan men. But what is that to the purpose? A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and no be the biggest pygmy he can be? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or something to be.

it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.