We can spend our whole lives underachieving.
Achievement Quotes
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.
You can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way.
It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.
Plant the seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.
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.
