Quotes About Achievement

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

One fails forward toward success.

The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.

Walking and I were on good terms now, and every day scored from thirty to forty miles; but that spurt from Ellsworth to Ellis was the longest day's walk I ever made.

Pride never admits its failures. Instead, the prideful person continues to push forward, blindly seeking self-gratification.

Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.

Whatever you accomplish in life, you will have to accomplish on your knees. (God told Charles F Stanley)

Our emotions often stand in direct opposition to our faith in the Lord and what He is achieving for us.

Three times as many people worked on Apollo as on the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.

Reihm wasn't thrilled by the Moon walk that he and his colleagues had worked for years to make possible; he was thrilled by its being over

The race to the Moon

If I will write a book, I will write it triumphantly.

Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.

The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens, but in bringing them within reach of factory girls in return for steadily decreasing amounts of effort. —JOSEPH SCHUMPETER1

I should regret very much to have you miss the glorious feeling of accomplishment and I know you are not going to let me down. Remember that often adversity is a blessing in disguise and is certainly the greatest character builder.

The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

No man e'er was glorious, who was not laborious.

Hard work is rewarding beyond gold. Sweating is living.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been. When work has disciplined a man, he may safely be left to himself...

Life is a battlefield of broken dreams and pieced-together victories.

If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today.

No one will dispute me when I say that the only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.