Quotes About Achievement

If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Nothing's far when one wants to get there.

Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.

You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.

Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman!

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

This one thing I do ... I press toward the mark.

The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

How grand is victory, but how dear!

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Think that day lost whose (low) descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.

Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.

In the three years I played ball, we won six, lost seventeen and tied two. Some statistician ... calculated that we won 75 percent of the games we didn't lose.

He who reflects too much will achieve little.

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.