Achievement Quotes

“I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.”

“Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.”

“...lest too light winning make the prize light.”

“Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.”

“How my achievements mock me!”

“I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.”

“Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.”

“Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.”

“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”

“I came, saw, and overcame.”

“What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.”

“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”

“All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.”

“You cannot make a cheap palace.”

“The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.”

“The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.”

“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”

“Let him be great, and love shall follow him.”

“He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.”

“If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me;For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.”

“You can accomplish a hundred other things but if you do not accomplish the one thing for which you have been sent, it will be as if you have done nothing.”

“The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.”

“Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.”

“Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype.”

“Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype. These people are setting goals constantly and trying to get someplace else. They say, "If you don't know where you are going, then you won't know when you get there."”