Quotes About Achievement

Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.

The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.

Make each day your masterpiece.

Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Measure yourself by...what you have accomplished with your ability

To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

Make each day a masterpiece.

The goal in life is just the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing

Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort? That's what matters. The rest of it just gets in the way.

Perfection is what you are striving for, but perfection is an impossibility. However, striving for perfection is not an impossibility. Do the best you can under the conditions that exist. That is what counts.

Don't mistake activity for achievement. To produce results, tasks must be well organized and properly executed; otherwise, it's no different from children running around the playground—everybody is doing something, but nothing is being done; lots of activity, no achievement.

there are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.

The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Succeeding is performing at your best when your best is required

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

don't worry about whether you're better than somebody else, but never cease trying to be the best you can become. You have control over that; the other you don't.

Never try to be better than anyone else, but never cease to be the best you can be. That's achievement.

Success is peace of mind that is the direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable. I did my best. That is all I could do. Are you going to make mistakes? Of course. But it is not failure if you make the full effort.

To my way of thinking, when you give your total effort—everything you have—the score can never make you a loser. And when you do less, it can't somehow magically turn you into a winner.

I had mistakes, plenty, but I had no failures