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Quotes About Achievement

For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about what's "too much" what's "enough" or if you're telling the "right" stories, just do good work.
~ Soledad O'Brien
Don't worry about the chatter, do a good job, produce great work and do reporting that you're proud of.
~ Soledad O'Brien
Effective people do two things: they strive to do excellent work, and they prioritize.
~ Stephen Covey
One who works twice as hard will have four times as much accomplishment. If he works 3 times as hard he will have 9 times as much accomplishment and 9 times more fun in the process.
~ Sterling W Sill
Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.
~ Sylvia Kristel
Rich people...take responsibility for the results in their lives and act upon the mind-set "It will work because I'll make it work."
~ T. Harv Eker
You are meant to succeed in the work you love. Your desire will take you all the way.
~ Tama J. Kieves
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.
~ Terry Brooks
The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. Its a nice feeling.
~ Thomas Lennon
Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?"
~ Tim Ferriss
I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.
~ Tim Ferriss
I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.
~ Trevor Nunn
So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.
~ Uri Geller
My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
~ Val Kilmer
Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
~ Victor Hugo
The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
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.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.
~ Wanda Jackson
Do more than dream. Work.
~ William Arthur Ward
And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.
~ Unknown
All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.
~ William Hurt