Quotes About Achievement

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

To have the rewards that very few have, do the things that very few people are willing to do.

The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

Success is measured simply by the amount of effort we put forth, in conquering our objectives.

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success. You're owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It's earned.

He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup, but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.

...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

Success isn't something you chase. It's something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it'll come when you least expect it. Most people don't understand that.

I have worked without thinking of myself. This is the largest factor in whatever success I have attained.

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

A man's high success requires a key; but his happiness needs personality to be low-key

Success is not easy. But it is worth the price.

Control success before it controls you.

A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.

It's impossible to fail completely and it's impossible to succeed perfectly.

I've gone through a lot of different phases on what I do and why I do it - morally and ethically. I've tortured myself about it, especially in dealing with success and money.

My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.

Success is something you attract, by becoming an attractive person.