Quotes About Achievement

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.

success is 99% failure

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

The natural thing to do is to work—to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

The biggest goal can be achieved if you simply break it down into enough small parts.

And when a man is really at work, he needs no title. His work honours him.

The man who does not get a certain satisfaction out of his day's work is losing the best part of his pay.

For the day's work is a great thing—a very great thing! It is at the very foundation of the world; it is the basis of our self-respect.

Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

So it has come at last—the Distinguished Thing.

Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

For Sun Tzu, victory is not simply the triumph of armed forces. Instead, it is the achievement of the ultimate political objectives that the military clash was intended to secure.

were history confined to the mechanical repetition of the past, no transformation would ever have occurred. Every great achievement was a vision before it became a reality. In that sense, it arose from commitment, not resignation to the inevitable.

Every great achievement was a vision before it became a reality. In that sense, it arose from commitment, not resignation to the inevitable.

China, until the modern age, imposed its own matrix of customs and culture on invaders so successfully that they grew indistinguishable from the Chinese people. By contrast, India transcended foreigners not by converting them to Indian religion or culture but by treating their ambitions with supreme equanimity; it integrated their achievements and their diverse doctrines into the fabric of Indian life without ever professing to be especially awed by any of them.