The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Achievement Quotes
If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstances.
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Achievement, n. The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
Commendation, n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.
