Quotes About Achievement

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

I don't fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, 'Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Against every great and noble endeavor stand a thousand mediocre minds.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

In his biggest sacrifices, man finds the biggest fulfillment

I myself am my only obstacle to perfection," wrote Kierkegaard.

Aging is a myth, he argued, and he showed it by posting his personal best at 3:01 in his 61st year.

Sin is the failure to reach your potential," he wrote. "Guilt is the unlived life.

Today's work does not make us the persons we can be. Work is simply the price to be paid. Having earned our daily bread, we can turn to our daily play.

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhiliration of victory.

Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.)

Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him! (said after capture of Saddam)

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.