Quotes About Achievement

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.

Seclusion is the price of greatness.

All the things that are worth doing, take time.

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

The best things in life are often the ones hardest to get. Yet they are also the ones that are the easiest to find, usually right in front of your face.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential.

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

There is no greater burden than great potential.

You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.

. . . [A]s a rule, the most learned persons do not produce the greatest results. We see that only too often.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics.

What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends