Quotes About Achievement

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

Keller has long believed that you have to be lucky to be good, but not good to be lucky.

When things go right, people credit their own abilities and intelligence. The onlookers do the reverse. When they see things go well for someone else, they sometimes credit the environment, or luck.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.

Sure, sure," said Bugs Meany, pushing his way to the front. "I'll be so rich my little sister will have to quit piano lessons and take up playing the cash register!

Whosoever insists on winning must play at trivial games; no interesting victory is ever assured.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

If you want to do amazing things with your life.

I've succeeded at everything except my life.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

My life was too short to acheive the conquest of the whole world.

High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.