Quotes About Achievement

You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.

I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well.

Genius is eternal patience.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Some men are graduated from college cum laude, some are graduated summa cum laude, and some are graduated mirabile dictu.

To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it.

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

He did it with all his heart, and prospered.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

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

Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and Ell show you somebody who has never achieved much.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.