Quotes About Achievement

The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.

School - You can get all A's and still flunk life.

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.

If you want to help the poor, demonstrate to them that they can become rich; prove it by getting rich yourself.

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it.

you can advance only by more than filling your present place.

Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do.

busting his agates

If you done it, it ain't bragging.

The cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself, and makes one.

Have you surpassed the rest? Are you the president? It doesn't matter. They will more than arrive there, every one, and still pass on.

I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I an encloser of things to be.

Hard work by itself isn't worth two cents on a rainy day if it doesn't give you a good life.

What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.

In a sane world, we would be heroes. Teachers would applaud as we walked into the school. There is the smart one, the one who wants to be a writer. And there is the runner.

On December 27 land was sighted. They had reached France. The men were confined to the ship until New Year's Day but were happy to be the first black unit to reach Europe.

Talent hits a target that no one else can hit," wrote the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. "Genius hits a target no one else can see.

It takes a lot of hard work," he said, "to make something simple

The goal was never to beat the competition, or to make a lot of money. It was to do the greatest thing possible, or even a little greater.

In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change. Dozens of the colleagues whom Jobs most abused ended their litany of horror stories by saying that he got them to do things they never dreamed possible. And he created a corporation crammed with A players.

Knowing that great conceptions are worth little without precision execution

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least

I remember him telling me that engineering was the highest level of importance you could reach in the world," Steve Wozniak later recalled. "It takes society to a new level.