Quotes About Achievement

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

We spend our waking moments," he said at last, "trying to be successful, because we can't think of anything else to do.

Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.

I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.

Le Verrier left the solar system larger than he found it - one both better and less completely understood.

I was a straight-A student at a university" does not mean what it did in 1960 or even 1980. A study of two hundred colleges and universities up through 2009 found that A was the most commonly given grade, an increase of nearly 30 percent since 1960 and over 10 percent just since 1988. Grades in the A and B range together now account for more than 80 percent of all grades in all subjects, a trend that continues unabated.17

These are dangerous times. Never have so many people had so much access to so much knowledge and yet have been so resistant to learning anything. In the United States and other developed nations, otherwise intelligent people denigrate intellectual achievement and reject the advice of experts. Not only do increasing numbers of laypeople lack basic knowledge, they reject fundamental rules of evidence and refuse to learn how to make a logical argument.

The American Dream cannot produce "rags to riches," but it has, as Strain puts it, delivered reliably on the promise of "rags to comfort.

Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.

Everything in life worth achieving requires practice. In fact, life itself is nothing more than one long practice session, an endless effort of refining our motions. When the proper mechanics of practice are understood, the task of learning something new becomes a stress-free experience of joy and calmness, a process which settles all areas in your life and promotes proper perspective on all of life's difficulties.

You are going to find that buying the car is much less satisfying than working for it.

When we subtly shift toward both focusing on and finding joy in the process of achieving instead of having the goal, we have gained a new skill. And once mastered, it is magical and incredibly empowering.

Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything. When you stay on purpose, focused in the present moment, the goal comes toward you with frictionless ease.

Getting the goal and achieving it are worlds apart.

he'd paid for should have led me to greater abstraction, but while it's true that the farther you get from an actual product the better your chances for economic success, I and many of my classmates wanted more physical evidence of our efforts.

Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.

Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.

Better the day, better the deed.

He that climbs highest had the greatest fall.

Go where glory waits thee!But while fame elates thee,Oh, still remember me!

See, the conquering hero comes!Sound the trumpet, beat the drums!