Quotes About Achievement

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse,And every conqueror creates a muse.

I like to read great books not because I'm hoping to imitate them but because I want to remind myself how good you have to be to be any good at all. We won't be read in the light of other writers in our zip code or decade but as we compare to Proust, Joyce, and Nabokov. History has set the bar very high, and one must jump over it, not do the limbo under it.

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

Let the boy win his spurs.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare, said a wise man. If so, what happens to excellence when we eliminate the difficulty and the rarity?

That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

good progress is often the herald of great progress.

Brilliant students and brilliant innovators create their own victories by practicing habits of thinking that inevitably carry them step-by-step to works of greatness

I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. —Michael Jordan

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius.

It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

One of the greatest sources of energy is pride in what you are doing.

You should produce the body.

You've come a long way baby.

They Laughed When I Sat Down at the Piano.

No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch.

They're GR-R-REAT!

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

The Breakfast of Champions.

When you're climbing the ladder, don't forget the rungs.

Progress is our most important product.