Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration – and expectation.
Achievement Quotes
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day’s work an achievement for eternity.
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
We can spend our whole lives underachieving.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
The aim of a true achievement must lie, not in futile efforts towards the complete accommodation of man to circumstances in which he chances to find himself, but in the maintenance of a kind of candid discontent, in the face of the very highest achievement.
The achiever is the only individual who is truly alive.
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Even when people are more successful than they had imagined, nothing is ever achieved without giving something up.
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
