Quotes on Achievement

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

There is no magic to achievement. It's really about hard work, choices, and persistence.

It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.