Quotes About Achievement

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Probably any successful career has "X" number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't superachievers is taking advantage of those breaks.

Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.

When I did well, I heard it never; When I did ill, I heard it ever.

Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire, so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.

In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line. ... From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little?

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming, and what one has in fact become.

We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness-and fewer those who have taken that chance.

The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

Entrepreneurs, in accepting risk, achieve security for all. In embracing change, they ensure social and economic stability.

I love the challenge.

Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.