Quotes About Achievement

'Twas I that beat the bush,The bird to others flew.

Nowadays the seminaries turn out little choirboys, little ragamuffins who think they're working harder than anybody because they never get anything done.

A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failedI well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself.

The days you work are the best days.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

But throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion.

I hope that, in a small way, I am interesting people in animal life and in its conservation. If I accomplish this I will consider that I have achieved something worth while. And if I can, later on, help even slightly towards preventing an animal from becoming extinct, I will be content.

Resolutions mean willpower, willpower means achievement, achievement means success and failure, and the whole sequence means losing an appreciation of the gift. I have learned two sure things in the struggle between my desire for love and the oppression of my attachments. The first is that God is absolutely trustworthy. The second is that resolutions are absolutely not.

If you are a good leader, Who talks little, They will say, When your work is done, And your aim fulfilled, "We did it ourselves." - Lao Tse

Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?

Is it ever thus, at the end of things? Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

I know it was wonderful, but I don't know how I did it.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

Labor conquers all things.

A lawyer must first get on, then get honor, and then get honest.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.

Each person on this planet is inherently, intrinsically capable of attaining "dizzying heights" of happiness and fulfillment.