Quotes About Achievement

What is once well done is done forever.

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

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

No importa que el comienzo sea pequeño; lo que se hace bien una vez, queda bien hecho para siempre.

What is once well done is forever

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

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

One of the maxims which the devil, in a late visit upon earth, left to his disciples, is, when once you are got up, to kick the stool from under you. In plain English, when you have made your fortune by the good offices of a friend, you are advised to discard him as soon as you can.

Excellence does not require perfection.

I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!

It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything. 

If you look for grand examples of anything from me, I shall disappoint you.

When you are successful you naturally feel more at home

The sense of success -the most agreeable emotion of the human heart

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.

It has not been a successful life.' 'No -- it has only been a beautiful one.

When you're successful you naturally feel more at home.

The perfection of her success, decidedly, was like some strange shore to which she had been noiselessly ferried and where, with a start, she found herself quaking at the thought that the boat might have put off again and left her. The

Chiamo ricca la gente ch'è in grado di realizzare gl'impulsi della propria immaginazione.

He goes very far, but it's quite possible he doesn't go far enough.

Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber. Here it's different. Here every man is potentially a zero. If you become something or somebody it is an accident, a miracle.

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.