Quotes About Achievement

Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I'm getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.1 —WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

By contrast, Blanche K. Bruce was the real deal. Born into slavery in Virginia, Bruce was freed by his master and studied at Oberlin College before becoming a successful farmer and landowner. He is the only former slave to have served in the U.S. Senate.

I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making – it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't.

It must be deeply satisfying for you. The college is internationally known as a result of Hitler studies. It has an identity, a sense of achievement. You've evolved an entire system around this figure, a structure with countless substructures and interrelated fields of study, a history within history. I marvel at the effort. It was masterful, shrewd and stunningly preemptive. It's what I want to do with Elvis.

The best good that you can possibly achieve is not good enough if you have to strain yourself all the time to reach it. A thing is only worth doing, and doing again and again, if you can do it rather easily, and get some joy out of it.

The goal is to produce a great product, one that is successful, and that customers love.

To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it

Anyone ambitious, who lives to be old or even old , endures the inevitable loss of ambition's fulfillment.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Luck does not come around often. So when it does, be sure to take full advantage of it, even if it means working very hard. When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve. That is the true meaning of thinking big.

You do your job, you keep your job. Do it well, you get a better job.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Use your work to better yourself. You

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

Irving was the kind of guy who worked perhaps an hour a day and accomplished more in that hour than most managers did in twelve hours. I learned something from that: it's not how many hours you put in, it's what you get done while you're working.

points worth repeating if you are intent on big success:

Barnard suddenly realized, with gloomy introspection, that "I had the legal system of the United States to thank for the honor of being the first surgeon in the world to have done a heart transplant.

Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you're not going to want to do it. It's like that with writing books, and it's like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.

If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life.

Of his new book, Don says: "It might be the greatest book ever written. I don't think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I'm going to use the money to go to space.

those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we're perfect.

It isn't about what you don't get done; it's about what you do get done.

When we look back on our lives, what we will remember are the crazy things we did, the times we worked harder to make a day stand out.