Quotes About Achievement

One's own self conquered is better than all other people.

Prosperity is acquired by exertion, and there is no fruit for him who doth not exert himself: the fawns go not into the mouth of a sleeping lion.

The potter forms what he pleases with soft clay, so a man accomplishes his works by his own act.

To accomplish our dreams, we must act on achieving gaols

Catch your dreams before they slip away Dying all the time Lose your dreams And you will lose your mind

Let no lost love break you. If you really did beyond your best, that's one thing to make you proud of your innumerable abundance

[Upon being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer:] Which would you rather be—a victor in the Olympic games, or the announcer of the victor?

And will you succeed? Yes you will indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)"

What was the use of propriety when it kept one from getting things done?

Like a double-edge sword, success cuts two ways.

pride must be in the work, not the person.

modern 'scientific' sociology, whose achievement has been to obscure by means of statistical legerdemain the importance of human consciousness

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

The sun! The sun! And all we can become And the time ripe for running to the moon!

Over every mountain, there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.