Quotes About Achievement

The world has no boundaries for someone who savors success and is willing to work for it.

There was little that common sense and hard work couldn't accomplish.

But sometimes one must travel the rough road to reach one's ultimate destination.

We must all run through a storm or two before we reach our destinations.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

Tajna je dobrog života u tom da pružiš svoju najbolju utakmicu u svem što radiš. Pa ?ak i ako bacaš sme?e, to moraš izvrsno obaviti.

Where you succeed will never so much matter as where you fail. -We Are All Beside Ourselves

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

Nina Torrone, a young artist whose work had caught fire and was selling for over half a million per painting.

The ambition of most beings is just to stay alive, overeat, spend too much, and avoid hard work. I'm happy that I can achieve much more than that…and we all die sooner or later. A death in service of a great ideal is a fine thing.

He had always told her that winners only competed with themselves.

If you want to measure the height of a mountain, the hardest part isn't finding the peak, it's figuring out where the bottom starts.

The older sister could have been an overachiever who cast the kind of shadow in which nothing could grow.

No one understood striving for second place. It was un-American. "She just wanted peace

I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.

What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Non c'è via maestra per la scienza, e solo hanno una probabilità di raggiungerne le vette luminose coloro che non temono di affaticarsi a salirne i ripidi sentieri.

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well. And having done it well, he loves to do it better.

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.