Quotes About Achievement

The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal, but by the grandness of effort involved in getting there-or failing to get there.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top."

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather I believe it indispensible to talent: if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.

Success is a great healer.

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.

Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far their greatest joy.

Out of the strain of the Doing, into the peace of the Done.

Success is like a liberation, or the first phase of a love affair.

How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.

I have found that it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.

He must really be a big success - even his mother-in-law admits it.