Quotes About Achievement

It would be sad if my best work had been 20 years ago and now I only had memories.

Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

Make a better mousetrap and the world will know it; it can measure and applaud your skill. Make a better man and the world will say he did it himself.

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable.

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

The first step toward success will be the biggest one.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

You can't see how far I've come because your still waiting to see how far I'll get

The "hillbilly" girls were generating more enriched Tubealloy per run than the PhDs had...The District Engineer understood perfectly. Those girls...had been trained like soldiers. Do what you're told. Don't ask why.

Whether or not you agree with the outcome, the tremendous amount that the Manhattan Project accomplished in such a short amount of time–just under three years–is astonishing. It makes you wonder what other kinds of things could be accomplished with that kind of determination, effort, and financial and political support. What if the kind of money, manpower, and resources that went into the Manhattan Project went into the fight against hunger? Cancer? Homelessness?