Achievement

27 quotes.

• It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

  Confucius

• The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

  Molière

• Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving.

  Conrad Hilton

• Always do what you are afraid to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

  Georg Fabricius

• Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.

  Stewart Edward White

• Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

  Henri-Frédéric Amiel

• Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

  J. M. Barrie

• Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

  Harvey Cushing

• Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

  Vincent van Gogh

• He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made.

  Henry B. Wilson

• I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

  Jonas Salk

• If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.

  Cher

• If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

  Brian Tracy

• It takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow.

  Anonymous

• Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

  Samuel Johnson

• Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  Dale Carnegie

• Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

  Louis D. Brandeis

• Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.

  Kathleen Winsor

• Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.

  Karen Ravn

• Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

  Willis R. Whitney

• All great achievements require time.

  Maya Angelou

• The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

  Steve Young

• The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but their failures.

  Earl Warren

• The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

  A. J. Cronin

• They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized.

  Eric Hoffer

• You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

  Attributed to André Gide

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