Quotes About Achievement

There is no such thing as complete education, and I hope we have heard the last of the girl who is going to Boston to complete her education.

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.

Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.

Put in 5% more effort than "there's only so much I can do" and you'll be way ahead of the game.

If you've climbed the jutting trees to your lofty goal, you've far outdone the unscathed ladder climbers.

People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do.

The view is better when it is earned.

Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.

He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

Don't make excuses — make good!

Excuses are the tools with which incompetents build to themselves great monuments of Nothing.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Experience is the thorn-lined road to success.

Experience is climbing the ladder built from your mistakes.

This is how it is when Siddhartha has a goal... His goal attracts him, because he doesn't let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal... This is what fools call magic and of which they think it would be effected by means of the daemons. Nothing is effected by daemons, there are no daemons. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

Here's to the fish he caught, Here's to the one that got away, And here's to the one he bought.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but obtainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Friday — superhero of the workweek!

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life.

It's not that successful people are givers; it is that givers are successful people.

The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his behind.

Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.