Quotes About Achievement

Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes it.

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.

It's the steady, constant driving to the goal for which you're striving, not the speed with which you travel, that will make your victory sure.

The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

Slow motion gets you there faster.

I'm not there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

One can go a long way after one is tired.

Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we ... are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.

Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

You have to set new goals every day.

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.

A homer a day will boost my pay.

To accomplish our destiny ... we must cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

If you want to succeed in the world, you must make your own opportunities.