Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Achievement Quotes
Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them. . .they achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally and they don’t stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another’s keeping.
If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.
The awareness of the ambiguity of one’s highest achievements -as well as one’s deepest failures- is a definite symptom of maturity.
I believe you rarely achieve more than you expect.
I have yet to read the life story of a truly great man, whether he be an artist, a poet, an inventor, a scientist, or what have you, who did not achieve success by long study and careful planning. Most of them by years of hard work. That is the price of achievement.
