Quotes About Achievement

A failure is only a step on the way to your success.

Solving a problem for which you know there's an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid.

Have a 4P Kind of Day! Positive, Productive, Progressive, Prosperous

Ambition and audacity show themselves also after having passed through thousands of difficulties and having overcome them all.

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up.

The only miracles of any value are the ones you work.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

When human glory rises high As human glory can; When though the king is truly great, Still greater is the man.

We rise in glory, as we sink in pride: Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

People live up to your expectations, not their potential.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're the only ones who can tear it off once and for all.

Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.

They were not simply beautiful phrases, but a constant summons to superhuman behavior, words that demanded that the individual stake his very life on the attempt to climb to their own lofty heights.

This was the domain established in less than twenty years by the young man of promise. Then he had had almost nothing over which his fingers might close with a sense of possession, but because the lack had stirred no anxious irritation in him, all these things had now come securely into his grasp.

Now that I have taken my revenge on my enemy and have made a name for myself, I can lay down my swords, bows, and arrows.

The purpose of battle is to attain the greatest heights within your own limits.

The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.

The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more.

Gender is a race in which some of the runners compete only for the bronze medal.

Climbing Mount Everest is more satisfying than standing at the top; flirting and foreplay are more exciting than having an orgasm; and conducting groundbreaking lab experiments is more interesting than receiving praise and prizes.

Unfortunately, the Sapiens regime on Earth has so far produced little that we can be proud of. We have mastered our surroundings, increased food production, built cities, established empires and created far-flung trade networks. But did we decrease the amount of suffering in the world?