Quotes About Achievement

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

To be without desire is to be content. But contentment is not happiness. And in contentment there is no progress. Happiness is to desire something, to work for it, and to obtain at least a part of it.

No matter how you define success, risk is a necessary ingredient of every successful life. Risk puts you in position to win.

German test pilot Ernst Canter noted in his logbook that while in 1910 he flew at a height of eighty feet, two years later he was ascending to almost 5,000.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there -- or failing to get there.

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

Weber's achievement was not to definitively answer a riddle but to stake out a territory fertile of new puzzles at the heart of which is the claim that religious forces, not simply economic ones, paved the way for the mentality characteristic of modern, Western capitalism.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings" (Prov. xxii. 29).

After twenty successful years in journalism, I left it, vividly remembering that You can achieve a lot with journalism, but you should know exactly when to quit.

By definition, however, PR should be trying to achieve virality for its stories - that's one of its goals.

A man hauls in the fish he baits for and at the depth at which he fishes.

Think doubt and fail, think victory and succeed

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

If you can remember, worry, or tie your shoe, you can succeed with Psycho-Cybernetics!

Get yourself a goal worth working for.

The individual who is actively engaged in a struggle, or in striving toward an important goal, does not come up with pessimistic philosophies concerning the meaninglessness or the futility of life.

The lucky of successful person has learned a simple secret. Call up, capture, evoke the feeling of success. When you feel successful and confident, you will act successfully.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. —William E. Gladstone

You must have a clear mental picture of the correct thing before you can do it successfully.

In expecting to grow "old" at a given age we may unconsciously set up a negative goal image for our Creative Mechanism to accomplish.

Henry J. Kaiser, the industrialist considered the father of American shipbuilding, attributed much of his success in business to the constructive, positive use of Creative Imagination with these words: "You can imagine your future.

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals that are worthwhile.