Quotes About Achievement

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks.

There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues, but they never make it, they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it.

Excellence in any pursuit is the late, ripe fruit of toil.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

The great majority of successful business men and women have been and are possessors of strong personalities of the right sort, and by analyzing their climb to success it is amazing to discover how large a part good manners, good breeding, and correct behavior have had in helping them to win the goal.

Many people who wonder why they don't amount to more than they do have good stuff in them, and are energetic, persevering, and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts.

Will you be satisfied with the fruit of your life's work? Will the efforts you are making now bring you satisfaction when the things of time are receding, and eternity looms ahead?

It is abundantly clear that success tends to negate humility.

Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

The only way to the top is by persistent, intelligent, hard work.

I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, "Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today." But dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.

No one succeeds without effort.... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.

There's such a thin line between winning and losing.

Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.

It takes time to be a success.

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward for taking time to do anything well.

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves-to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our today, to do our work with more force than ever before.