Quotes About Achievement

I know my limits. No one knows their limits till they've gone beyond them.

Achievement is devastating, or at least disorienting, and they don't warn you in advance. It's the sudden change of momentum and direction, I think.

In fact, since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Head in the direction you wish to arrive. Don't divert or divide yourself for a degree in English (unless you want to be a teacher) or articles in the local paper (unless you want to be a journalist). You become a fiction writer by writing fiction.

The fastest way to get to easy is through hard.

Luck is something you make for yourself, if you want it.

Our ingress into the world was naked and bare; our progress through the world is trouble and care; our egress from the world will be nobody knows where; but if we do well here we shall do well there.

Lest any idle person might think that I have had time to write plays during the last few years I may mention that the first act of The Tents of the Arabs was written on September 3rd, and the second act on September 8th, 1910. The first and second acts of The Laughter of the Gods were written on January 29th, and the third act on February 2nd and 3rd, 1911. A Night at an Inn was written on January 17th, 1912, and The Queen's Enemies on April 19, 20, 21, 24, 28, 29, 1913.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.

The Grand Ole Opry asked me to be a member on September 25, 1962. I was thirty years old. I can't tell you how proud that made me. It was one of the best moments of my life.

Good works will be recognized ultimately, but if you work for the recognizion alone, you may be in for a long wait.

This was my modest dream come true: unambitious flight. The kind that never even got high enough for a view.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. You've got to make a sincere attempt to have the right goals to begin with, then go after them with appropriate effort, and remember that you can't really achieve anything great without the help of others.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the darn ship in. - Lou Holtz

A person may be smaller in success than in defeat; it depends on what he is trying to do

What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?" I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? "There is time," she said, "but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning.

There will always be folks who will talk, and the better you do in the world the more bad things they will say of you. Back there in the settlement you remember how the dogs used to run out and bark at our wagons? Yes, ma. Did the wagons stop? No, ma. Remember that, son. The dogs bark, but the wagons go on their way, and if you're going some place you haven't time to bother with barking dogs.

It is this by which we measure a man, by what he does with his life, by what he creates to leave behind. —Louis L'Amour