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Quotes About Achievement

We cannot see a person's potential, only his or her results, so we often misjudge people by thinking that the results must reflect the person.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
What I've learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
The nobility of the human race lies in our drive to know, and our uniqueness as a species is reflected in the success we've achieved, after millennia of effort, in deciphering the puzzle that is nature.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
rule by the losers—by those who, for whatever reason, cannot or choose not to achieve values on their own, but depend instead on the work and effort of others.
~ Leonard Peikoff
The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance
~ Leonardo da Vinci
People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and made things happen.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Tell me if anything was ever done... Tell me... Tell me.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death
~ Leonardo da Vinci
As a day well spent makes sleep seem pleasant, so a life well employed makes death pleasant. A life well spent is long.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Întrucât nu poÈ›i face ce doreÅŸti, doreÅŸte-È›i ceea ce poÈ›i face.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
As a well-spent day brings a happy sleep, so a well-employed life brings a happy death.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Non appena nasce la virtù, nasce contro di lei l'invidia, e farà prima il corpo a perdere la sua ombra che la virtù la sua invidia.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
People of accomplishments rarely sit back and let things happen to them. They go out and happen to things.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Gustavo Solivellas dice: Los hombres geniales empiezan grandes obras, los hombres trabajadores las terminan (Leonardo Da Vinci)
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Those who accomplish don't sit around, hoping things will happen to them...
~ Leonardo Di Vinci
Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.
~ Les Brown
The greatest revenge is massive success.
~ Les Brown
Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss you miss, you'll land in the stars.
~ Les Brown
No one rises to low expectations
~ Les Brown
It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.
~ Les Brown
It's not over until you win
~ Les Brown
Live full, die empty
~ Les Brown
The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe that it is possible.
~ Lewis Carroll