Quotes About Achievement

Great things are done when man and mountains meet, These are not done by walking down the street.

Don´t let the difficulties prevent your from risk, because no matter how hard is the way, each step traveled has the convenience of being closer to his end.

Never expect to achieve tomorrow what you can get today. Different of the fruits that fall alone, the sky can never be achieved in the same way.

The greatest victory is one that emerges out about yourself.

Nothing that's worth anything is ever simple. That's what makes it worth it

It was delicious to be praised. A sense of luxury invaded Eustace's heart. Get on in the world...say nice things to people...he would remember that.

In the world there are only two ways of raising one's self, either by one's own industry or by the weakness of others.

He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.

The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists.

It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.

A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy.

Those who apply themselves too much to little things commonly become incapable of great ones.

The art of being able to make a good use of moderate abilities wins esteem and often confers more reputation than real merit.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

We may appear great in an employment below our merit; but we often appear little in an employment that is too great for us.

There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and 'tis for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success.

The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people.

There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit.

I refuse to tell myself that all the work of the past has been worthless, and that everything remains to be done. No, much has been done, and you have no right to deny it to yourselves and to disavow those efforts today.

If you have a will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure!

The mind sees, the will commands, the man acts. What is it then to act? To act is to produce something. If you have produced nothing--if no result has been the fruit of your will, you have done nothing.