Quotes About Achievement

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish

Love and desire are the spiritís wings to great deeds.

Of freedom and of life he only is deservingWho every day must conquer them anew.

Who strives always to the utmost,For him there is salvation.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

How can you come to know yourself Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few priveledged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.

W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?

Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

Anything you can do, or dream you do, begin it: boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Ja! diesem Sinne bin ich ganz ergeben, das ist der Weisheit letzter Schluß: nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das Leben, der täglich sie erobern muß.