Quotes About Achievement

Joy is the will which labors, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joy.

'Tis man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other men. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

I believe that the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

I came, I saw, I concurred.

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness, and every man understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it.

Everyone expects to go further than his father went; everyone expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart-to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll never need. I do it to do it. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

I am not sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough, and the old applause.

I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.

Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.

Hardships, poverty and want are the best incentives, and the best foundation, for the success of man.

There are two things that people want more than sex and money- recognition and praise.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they begin.

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

All is well that ends well.

In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.