Quotes About Achievement

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom's sharp peaks.

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal. -- from The Sexual Side of Spirituality

You tell me of degrees of perfection to which human nature is capable of arriving, and I believe it, but at the same time lament that our admiration should arise from the scarcity of the instances.

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to expect a few blisters.

This only grant me, that my means may lieToo low for envy, for contempt too high.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Surgery was the most difficult thing I could imagine. And so I became a surgeon.

She had died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

When you win, you often lose

We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.

It's a long way to the top, If you wanna rock n' roll

I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.

Those who change the course of art use any means to convince the world that it needs something it neither anticipates nor understands and rarely wants. Artistic achievement is in large part a function of will; it is rarely a function of character.

Dreams comes easy,,, but a determine soul plays it to reality...

and if the other man falls, and not just any man but a man also trained to take it, they're done, they've won the purest win and that's what they're dreaming, these men in the back rooms of The Blue Horizon