Quotes About Achievement

The test of any man lies in action.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

Performance releases pressure.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark!

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.

Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key, and puts us at our best.

Set short term goals and you'll win games. Set long term goals and you'll win championships!

Aim at nothing and you'll succeed.

What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.

It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

For me it's the challenge-the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.