Quotes About Achievement

The best is the enemy of the good.

'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence,' was the answer, given without hesitation.

The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.

There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.

There are two kinds of people: those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievements from the second.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose man enjoyment is winning.

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

The whole motivation for any performer is 'Look at me, Ma.'

There are five stages to an actor's career: who is Herschel Bernardi? get me Herschel Bernardi; get me a Herschel Bernardi type; get me a young Herschel Bernardi; and who is Herschel Bernardi?

He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.

The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

So much to do; so little done.

The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things, as revenge. To show that I could.

Difficulties, opposition, criticism - these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.