Quotes About Achievement

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But to me it sounds like a man waking from a paralysis to discover, in rapid succession, that he can walk, that he can run, that he can run fast.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.

Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble…. A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Captains of Industry.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

You don't want to be great to start anything like business or any other but you will become great once you started

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Fame is no sure test of merit.

No pressure, no diamonds.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Not what I Have," continues he, "but what I Do is my Kingdom.

To men in their sleep there is nothing granted in this world.

Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company.

Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a Product

Know thyself': long enough has that poor 'self' of thine tormented thee; thou wilt never get to 'know' it, I believe! Think it not thy business, this knowing of thyself; thou art an unknowable individual: know what thou canst work at; and work at it, like a Hercules! That will be thy better plan.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.