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Quotes About Achievement

A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.
~ Jessica Savitch
Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.
~ Lisa Leslie
If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.
~ George Westinghouse
You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
~ Socrates
You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn't find you, you find it.
~ Jared Leto
Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work.
~ Jean Beliveau
These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.
~ Paul Harvey
Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!
~ Bill Parcells
I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] . . . You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the thought that my days are not yet over and that I may still accomplish much.
~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes
~ David Cassidy
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.
~ Vince Lombardi
the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become
~ Paulo Coelho
I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear. So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.
~ Michael Jordan
Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!
~ Larry Page
To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.
~ Don Shula
There are so many people that use 'following your dreams' as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work.
~ Brandon Stanton
In every position that I've been in, there have been naysayers who don't believe I'm qualified or who don't believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
I don't have the physical talent those guys have. My hard work has made me very good.
~ Reggie Miller
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand
~ Vince Lombardi
Don't expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen.
~ Deborah Meaden
Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills.
~ Soichiro Honda
You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done.
~ Larry Winget