Quotes About Achievement

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

It is not enough to succeed, a friend must fail.

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning ftiends has meant the most.

Today a man discovered gold and fame, Another flew the stormy seas; Another set an unarmed world aflame, One found the germ of a disease. But what high fates my path attend: For I-today-I found a friend.

If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from men who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.

Men of genius are the worst possible models for men of talent.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Genius is only great patience.

We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.

To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Do noble things, do not dream them all day long.

The end of man is action.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world, we must do something.

If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing, don't talk about it ... do it.

Talking is easy, action difficult.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

"Now" is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.