Quotes About Achievement

Setting a goal is the first step, and completing a goal is the commitment."

James A. Belasco

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

By twenty-six Hume had completed the first two volumes of A Treatise of Human Nature, 'the masterpiece which contains all that is most important in his thought'. The Treatise, though, was 'a complete failure', and there followed years of poverty and insignificance. Hume

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

He wanted to make a copy to send back to his sister – the one who'd been smart enough to finish college and was working for Weyland-Yutani as a forensic xenobiologist. She made disgustingly good money. Still, he got laid a lot more often. It was all a matter of perspective.

Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.

Working hard will allow you to be useful to successful people. Working smart will allow you to enter their ranks.

goals in life. You are reading this book because you are looking for inspiration and techniques that will increase your motivation and bring you closer to your goals. Maybe you want to get in shape. Maybe you want to excel in your career. Maybe you want to be an outstanding musician or artist, or pursue some other outlet for your creativity. In general,

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.

Many give way when success is assured, and rapidly fall back into failure.

He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much.

He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

Gosto muito de uma frase do Zuenir Ventura, que diz que ele não gosta de escrever, gosta de ter escrito. O ato de escrever não me dá muito prazer, não. Bom é ter escrito.

El afán es el deseo de ser un gran hombre y de hacer grandes cosas, y la pena y la agloria que todo eso produce. Eso es el afán.

El afán es el deseo de ser un gran hombre y de hacer grandes cosas, y la pena y la gloria que todo eso produce. Eso es el afán.

If you're not white, you have to be brilliant, just to be considered acceptable.

It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.

You're a classic case of Horney's: the man who comforts himself not with what he achieves, but with what he dreams of achieving.