Quotes About Achievement

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

It was never enough for him merely to establish a result; he had to do it with elegance and grace.

Since the days of John6 something new has been happening, creating a new situation, with the result that, "great as John was, the least in the dawning Kingdom was greater; not in personal achievement and worth but by God's gift he, unlike John, was in the Kingdom."7 The contrast is not between John and other people but between the old age of the prophets and the new age of the Kingdom that had begun with Jesus' ministry.8

The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

We used to be a nation that celebrated people who got things done. Now we celebrate people who stop things getting done.

Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at four in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.

Freedom of action based on commander's intent means that the expectation is success, not a particular way of achieving success.

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

The test distills into a few questions: What is your attitude toward people who surpass you in the creation of wealth or in other accomplishments? Do you aspire to equal their excellence, or does it make you seethe? Do you admire and celebrate exceptional achievement, or do you impugn it and seek to tear it down?

You got a promotion with extra responsibilities but without pay or additional benefits." Mom smiled. "I'm so proud of you. You're officially a successful adult.

Even if we were mated, I have my own name and I made my own rep. I don't think the term 'mate' should trump everything I've done. I've earned more than that." Jim

one of my first achievements was to blow up the warehouse all of us called home.

Humble is for losers. I am a winner.