Explore Quotes on Achievement

Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.

I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.

Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou art so fair." And our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.

One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another face of the prejudice that would deny them a chance to even try. It is the same prejudice that insists all those destined for success must be cast from the same mold as those who have succeeded before them, a view that experience has already proven a fallacy.

Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements would be trivial. Their toddlers, instead of learning their ABCs on Sesame Street, would learn multivariable calculus on Boolean Boulevard. Our most complex theorems, our deepest philosophies, the cherished works of our most creative artists, would be projects their schoolkids bring home for Mom and Dad to display on the refrigerator door.