Quotes About Achievement

What you inherit from your father must first be earned before it's yours.

CHORUS Gird thee for the high endeavor; Shun the crowd's ignoble ease! Fails the spirit never, Wise to think, and prompt to seize. Goethe, Faust, Part II, act 1, 50–53

Para que la obra más grande de todas se realice, un solo ingenio les basta a mil manos.

Don't be humble . . . you're not that great.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

To be successful, a woman has to be better at her job than a man.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them.

Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.

Fulfilling your dreams is not a luxury, but a purpose in life. The whole point of imagination is to make dreams real.

SUCCESS is not a question of how much power or money you have acquired. It is a question of how satisfied you are with WHO YOU ARE.

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

When I say do your best, I mean your very best. You are capable of so much more.

I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.

What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another's virtues more than we speak of one another's faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: "Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality.

The Lord would want you to be successful. He would. You are His sons and His daughters. He has the same kind of love and ambition for you that your earthly parents have. They want you to do well and you can do it.

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.