Quotes About Achievement

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.

Our trials are tests; our sorrows pave the way for a fuller life when we have earned it.

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."

One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

When someone does something well, applaud I You will make two people happy.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal.

A good title is the title of a successful book.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.

My generation of Canadians grew up believing that, if we were very good or very smart, or both, we would some day graduate from Canada.

The twentieth century belongs to Canada.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

And say to all the world, "This was a man!"