Quotes About Achievement

We had traveled 4200 miles or whatever and thus were obligated to create something. We had to take the available materials and make something worthy.

Look at us, goddammit, the two of us slingshotted from the back side of the moon, greedily cartwheeling toward everything we are owed.

If you're humble before the numbers, the rewards are significant.

In September of 2014, Mokhtar became the world's first Arab Q grader of arabica coffee

After years of struggle, my purpose became clear; for above all, I came to realize that America was truly the land where one could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. —Saint Francis of Assisi

Have you envisioned wild success about anything lately?

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it 'done.

In knowledge work … the task is not given; it has to be determined. 'What are the expected results from this work?' is

Talk does not cook rice. —Chinese proverb

Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.

Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs. —Václav Havel You'll

It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. —Edward Gibbon At

Plans get you into things but you've got to work your way out. —Will Rogers

The value of a future goal is the present change it fosters.

Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs. —Vaclav Havel

In knowledge work . . . the task is not given; it has to be determined.

Purpose defines success.

When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. And that makes things happen.

What is the purpose of living if there are no perils to be encountered and overcome?

Ella helped. Yes, she was a dreamer, but she had a way of doing her work without any fuss. She didn't understand the struggles some of us went through. If you had to write 1500 words you wrote 1500 words. You put one word then another then another then another.

Me great achievement is that I have been happy, that I've never been nowt but happy

If Forbes would put a list of the 400 oldest Americans and I was on that one—that's the list I really want to be on.