Quotes About Achievement

Happiness is only having something better than others.

On every birthday, when I wake, I now take out the old Nagan, load it with one bullet, spin the chamber and pull the trigger with the barrel in my mouth. I've cheated death nine times. It is my greatest achievement. And three months to go to my next birthday. I can't wait.

Okay, Buzzkill, this is a win. You celebrate wins. You don't shit on them.

He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.

Somebody said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.

Results and Roses The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek, It's secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure, there are thousands to point out to you one by one, the dangers that wait to assail you, But just buckle in, with a bit of a grin, just take off your coat and go to it; just start to sing as you tackle the thing, that cannot be done and you'll do it!!

It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

The best things in life make you sweaty.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Some forms of success are indistinguishable from panic.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

Success! Success! The enemy of progress!

People asked us, "Do you read history?" "No," I answered. "We are too busy making it.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Molto brillante! Consideratevi applaudito.

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Theodore," [Theodore Sr] said, eschewing boyish nicknames, "you have the mind but you have not the body, and without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should. You must make your body. It is hard drudgery to make one's body, but I know you will do it.

And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.