Quotes About Achievement

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go.

One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.

I don't believe that hard work equals success. It can, and maybe it should, but I know that it doesn't. There's a very slight relationship between the two.

If I believed people who told me you can't make a living as a writer, I wouldn't be making a living as a writer.

he was either ill or very old; he'd taken the stairs like he was climbing a mountain with a Sherpa on his back.

productive focus.

His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment

was born to be big. . . . And I ain't disappointing nobody.

I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.

El acercamiento es un principio; mantenerse unidos, un progreso; trabajar juntos, el verdadero éxito. HENRY FORD

There are two ways to get to the top of an oak tree: You can sit on an acorn and wait for it to grow, or you can climb the tree.

If you wish in this world to advance, Your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet. Or trust me, you haven't a chance.

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")

What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

If there is one true statement true of every living person it must be this: he hasn't achieved his full potential.

Lest too light winningMake the prize light.

'Tis a common proof,That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;But when he once attains the upmost round,He then unto the ladder turns his back,Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degreesBy which he did ascend.

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

By heaven methinks it were an easy leapTo pluck bright honor from the pale-fac'd moon,Or dive into the bottom of the deep,Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,And pluck up drowned honor by the locks.