Quotes About Achievement

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

The greatest gift life has to offer is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing.

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live – I have no use for the sour-faced man – and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

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

Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort

Credit should go with the performance of duty, and not with what is very often the accident of glory.

Dreams are a dime a dozen. it's their execution that counts

Any man who has met with success, if he will be frank with himself, must admit that there has been a big element of fortune in the success.

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.

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

I grew into manhood thoroughly imbued with the feeling that a man must be respected for what he made of himself.

We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.

The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them in practical fashion.

I f he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

The greatest happiness is the happiness that comes as a by-product of striving to do what must be done, even though sorrow is met in the doing.

Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles, but how to overcome them.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the one who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly…who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

Looked at absolutely, we must frankly acknowledge that we have fallen very far short indeed of the high ideal we should have reached. Looked at relatively, it must also be said that we have done better than any other nation or race working under our conditions.

There has not yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.