Quotes About Achievement

the true competition is the competition of the individual with himself—his present seeking to excel his past.

We envy the success of others, when we should emulate the process by which that success came.

Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.

The men who have not done their duty in this world never can be equal to those who have done their duty more or less well. If

The gifted student who has studied under a great teacher would almost certainly adopt a less independent tone in his first papers, because he would have the attitude of a pupil to his senior, besides a deference due to appreciation of his senior's achievements. A student without deference after distinguished tuition is almost always mediocre.

I want to rise so high that when I shit I won't miss anybody.

Simplicity is not a given. It is an achievement, a human invention, a discovery, a beloved belief.

I cannot estimate how much this pleases me. I feel I have succeeded to the idleness of God.

My brother, Major General Lawrence Heinlein, once told me that there are only two promotions in life that mean a damn: from buck private to corporal, and from colonel to general officer. I made corporal decades ago Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but now at long last I know what he meant about the other. Thank you.17

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind

The more we do, the more we can do.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Never mind what others do do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success. That—with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success—is our national disease.