Quotes About Achievement

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business life, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.

I never lost a game. I just ran out of time.

Commendation, n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble, but do not equal, our own.

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps till the legend, "over steep ways to the stars," fulfills itself.

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion ... a mere stimulus to men.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.

A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.

An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.

Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it.

When Babe Ruth was asked in 1930 how he felt about making more money that the President of the United States, he replied 'I had a better year than he (Herbert Hoover) did.' When Tom Snyder was asked in 1977 how he felt about making more money per year than President Carter, he replied, 'I have to go out and buy my own 707.'

Nothing succeeds like one's own successor.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away.

Good is not good, where better is expected.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.