Quotes About Achievement

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human biengs.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

The pursuit of happiness ... is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

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

Having a goal is a state of happiness.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing-and does it well.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Getting what you go after is success; but liking it while you are getting it is happiness.

First, teach a person to develop to the point of his limitations and then- pfft!-break the limitations.

I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.

I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important, and with that in mind I regard everyone as special.

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

See the conquering hero comes! Sound the trumpets, beat the drums!

The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.