Quotes About Achievement

My mother held the ladder for me to climb to the stars.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet; These are not done by jostling in the street.

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because, when opportunity knocks, they are out looking for four-leaf clovers.

The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore.

One may go a long way after one is tired.

The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time.

The principle is that the qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely. There is a simple democratic theory that the best man gets the office. In American thinking this is badly mixed up with the idea that some men "deserve" office, as if the right to control other men, to blast or benefit the future, were something that should be paid over as a reward for achievement in other fields or for virtue.

An acre of performance is worth the whole Land of promise...

Don't quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port.

The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success.

Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to vision in the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.

He who would gather roses must not fear thorns.

Life doesn't hand out ribbons for best-lived. It's an internal decoration.

It's only a matter of inches, but skipping gets us just that much closer to heaven.

At 13,000 feet nothing else matters.

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.

Getting good grades and learning things is the key to any door you want to open in the future. If you don't try your best, you are hurting yourself the most.

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.

Given the proper incentive, no mountain, it seems, is too high to climb, no current too swift to swim, if one is a Cherokee.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Without a degree of risk, there is little chance for the enormous mixture of relief and achievement that follows in its steps. It is the leap that goes on to support even greater attempts at the seemingly impossible challenges that the world often uses to sort the men from the boys, and of course, the women from the girls!

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

MEN AND WOMEN who did almost nothing for a large part of the year tend not to figure prominently in history books. Studies and museums naturally highlight enterprise and undervalue the art of remaining idle for months on end.