Quotes About Achievement

You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then you lay out your plans to get there, and then you just do it. It's pretty straightforward.

Winning can be defined as the science of being totally prepared.

Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

When you win, nothing hurts.

Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Trying to get a fast ball past Hank Aaron is like trying to get the sun past a rooster.

Citius, altius, fortius. (Swifter, higher, stronger.)

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love. ... Give it the best there is in you.... Seize your opportunities. ... And be a member of the team.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

The art of dealing with people is the foremost secret of successful men. A man's success in handling people is the very yardstick by which the outcome of his whole life's work is measured.

There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

Do it big or stay in bed.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

He that would have fruit must climb the tree.