Quotes About Achievement

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.

You can make something of your life, it just depends on your drive.

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

The greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong assignment.

My motto in life is that nothing is impossible, no target unachievable - one just has to try harder and harder.

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.

A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler.

Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life.

Don't just live a life; build one.

It is a noteworthy fact that the three highest officers in rank, and whose fame stands unchallenged either for efficiency or zeal, were all so indifferent to any question of personal interest, that they had received their appointment before they were aware it was to be conferred. Each brought from the Army of the United States an enviable reputation, such as would have secured to him, had he chosen to remain in it, after the war commenced, any position his ambition could have coveted.

Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, / He who travels fastest who travels alone...

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

It's one of the ironies of mountaineering,' said Young, 'that grown men are happy to spend months preparing for a climb, weeks rehearsing and honing their skills, and at least a day attempting to reach the summit. And then, having achieved their goal, they spend just a few moments enjoying the experience, along with one or two equally certifiable companions who have little in common other than wanting to do it all again, but a little higher.

You were raised to think in patterns set by others. To be as successful as you want to be, it may take getting out of those traditional patterns. Most people don't get out of their comfort zone. Most people don't attain the level of success they set out to achieve. I wonder if there's any correlation between those two statements?

Everyone should tackle some great project at least once in their life. I devoted most of my life to inventing new kinds of looms. Now it is your turn. You should make an effort to complete something that will benefit society. (Reingold, 1999)

Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

women tend to underrate their achievements, and have less confidence in their abilities than their line managers have for them.