Quotes About Achievement

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

I have been lucky in that I've been alive at times when the things that I wanted to do were capable of being done.

It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.

The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.

To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

Little by little, one travels far

There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.

I think what I represent is achieving what you want in life. It's a matter of your attitude. Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability.

Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.