Quotes About Achievement

Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something.... One fails forward toward success.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

Failure really isn't terrible if you can say to yourself, hey, I know I'm gonna be successful at what I want to do someday. Failure doesn't become a big hangup then because it's only temporary. If failure is absolute, then it would be a disaster, but as long as it's only temporary you can just go and achieve almost anything.

Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed. Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain. There is no failure for the good and brave.

Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.

In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

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

Your success depends on your ability to dream and follow through on those dreams.

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures, but the one who turns failures to best account.

People fail forward to success.

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Before such a prodigious career, judgement is torn between blame and admiration.

To many fame comes too late.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

You will never be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.