Quotes About Achievement

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labor and trouble; their whole nature was nothing but their master passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Casear; transported to St. Helena, like Napoleon.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

Some are born great; some achieve greatness, and others have it pinned on them.

The higher they fly the harder they fall.

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Voluptatea suprem? o cunosc numai cutez?torii care se cat?r? pe stânci sfidând abisul.

If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.… Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful…that's what matters to me.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

A great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.