Quotes About Achievement

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

[The sage] never strives himself for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.

People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Icing, meet cake.

Life is great when you're winning.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

son. Kareem blew us off, but you were very nice." The son was a grown man, a successful attorney in Los Angeles. His father was the CEO of the company Magic was soliciting. "My son is 29 years old now," the man said, "and he still has that picture on his wall." As Magic walked out of the meeting with a new multimillion-dollar client in his portfolio, he thought to himself, "See, Kareem? It could have been you.

But if you have to choose between someone with a staggering IQ and an elite education who's gliding along, and someone with a lower IQ but who is absolutely determined to succeed, you'll always do better with the second person.

If you've ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don't write as well as you do yet are rich and famous while you struggle onward, this is the reason. They are great directors.

The bar is high. But now you have a ladder.

When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success.

I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

There is nothing in your destiny, nothing in your future that you cannot accomplish.