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Quotes About Achievement

K2 had been climbed, not conquered.
~ Unknown
British climbers were driven as much by the fear of shame as they were by the lure of fame and glory. 4
~ Unknown
The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.
~ Mick Jagger
Roads never existed before man did, they were built. So blast the rocks and make the roads, frogs leap higher than the toads, let your goals be super super-sized, make your own roads or fly and MickeyMize
~ Unknown
The reason why a human could conquer the highest mountain peak is because human determination and confidence are stronger and higher than any peak, when they peak. So never let your vision be minimized, instead, get MickeyMized.
~ Unknown
What will this world say' has killed more dreams than the idea of difficulty in realizing them. If your mind can perceive, your heart can believe you certainly can achieve. Even an aeroplane first just existed in a thought form. Visualize, let human perseverance materialize, let it be sensationalized, get MickeyMized.
~ Unknown
You always pass failure on your way to success.
~ Mickey Rooney
You always pass failure on the way to success.
~ Mickey Rooney
We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
No quieres entender que para ser algo en esta vida se necesita más labia que saber. ¿Qué ganas con estudiar? ¿Qué ganas con estudiar? ¡Nada!
~ Unknown
Every man is the son of his own works.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
He… got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory one can wish for.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
El modo de dar una vez en el clavo, es dar cien veces en la herradura.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one's skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It's exhilarating to come closer and closer to self-discipline.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A person who has achieved control over psychic energy and has invested it in consciously chosen goals cannot help but grow into a more complex being. By stretching skills, by reaching toward higher challenges, such a person becomes an increasingly extraordinary individual.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi