Quotes About Achievement

When building something with as many moving parts as a brand-new restaurant, each small step along the way feels like a victory.

Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on.

One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.

Success is to be Happy in Life.

When I got the Nobel Prize I said to myself that it had made me neither smarter nor more stupid.

One cannot reach the fifth storey of the Potala without starting at the ground floor.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

Actions speak louder than words. In the days to come the Goddess of Victory will bestow her laurels only on those who prepared to act with daring.

Indolence, interruption, business, and pleasure; all take their turns of retardation….Perhaps no extensive and multifarious performance, said Sib, was ever effected within the term originally fixed in the undertaker's mind. He that runs against Time, has an antagonist not subject to casualities.

She had lived what so many of us had talked about.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.

No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.