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Quotes About Achievement

If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
~ Norm MacDonald
Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Take a step toward your dream today. No matter how tiny the step, it will give you the energy and desire to take another.
~ John Avery
We ought not to desire the impossible.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
~ May Sarton
I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.
~ Nelson DeMille
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?
~ Alexander the Great
You can't wait around for destiny to give you what you think you deserve, you have to earn it, even if you think you've paid your dues.
~ Slash
With your hands carve out your own destiny.
~ Guru Nanak
Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their own desires.
~ Martin Delany
I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.
~ Richard Hovey
Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.
~ Thomas Menino
Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.
~ Baba Amte
What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned.
~ Johann Gottfried Herder
What makes the great great? It is a sense of destiny.
~ Peter J. Daniels
Your destiny is not determined by your critics. Focus on running your own race.
~ Joel Osteen
Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
~ Paul Tsongas
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
~ Charles de Gaulle
We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
~ Orison Swett Marden
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
~ Alexis Carrel
How you earn your money and build your career is how you earn your destiny and build your legacy
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Vision = Focus / Focus = Attention / Attention = Action /Action = Results / Consistent Results = Destiny
~ John Spence