"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary
to a worthwhile achievement."
~Henry Ford~
"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big,
not realizing that life is made up of little things."
Frank A. Clark
"Spectacular achievement is always
preceded by unspectacular preparation."
~Robert H. Schuller~
"I claim to be an average man of less than average ability.
I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can
achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort
and cultivate the same hope and faith."
~Mahatma Gandhi~
"Never mistake activity for achievement."
~John Wooden~
"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men
and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
~Conrad Hilton~
"Because a thing seems difficult for you,
do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish."
~Marcus Aurelius~
"The best job goes to the person who can get it done
without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."
~Napolean Hill~
"All that a man achieves and all that he fails
to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts."
~James Allen~
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
~Robert Francis Kennedy~
"He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little;
he who would accomplish much must sacrifice much."
~James Allen~
"The way to be nothing is to do nothing."
~Nathaniel Howe~
"Press on - nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent
will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with
talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent."
~Calvin Coolidge~
"Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while
losers compare their achievements with those of other people."
~Nido Qubein~
"The major value in life is not what you get.
The major value in life is what you become."
~Jim Rohn~
"Well done is better than well said."
~Benjamin Franklin~
"Most of the important things in the world have been
accomplished by people who have kept on trying when
there seemed to be no hope at all."
~Dale Carnegie~
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall."
~Confucius~
"Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose;
the ability to do; the patience to wait. Put these together
and you have genius, and you have achievement."
~Leo J. Muir~
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
~Eleanor Roosevelt~
"It is hard to fail but is worse to have not tried to succeed.
In this life we get nothing save by effort."
~Theordore Roosevelt~
"The significance of a man is not in what he attains,
but rather what he longs to attain."
~Kahlil Gibran~
"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."
~Edmund Hillary~
"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it."
~William A. Ward~
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief
duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
~Helen Keller~
"Our greatest battles are that with our own minds."
~ Jame son Frank~
"Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered,
and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
~Orison Swett Marden~
"The value of achievement lies in the achieving."
~Albert Einstein~
"In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements."
~Mao Tse-Tung~
"Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given
to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement
possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly
bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry
or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of
accomplishment and smiling courage."
~Frederick Pierce~
"That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."
~Abraham Lincoln~
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice;
it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
~William Jennings Bryan~
"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it."
~Albert Schweitzer~
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to
make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent
or commanding except when he listens to this whisper
which is heard by him alone."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
"All great achievements require time."
~Maya Angelou~
"Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible,
and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
~St. Francis of Assisi~
"Little by little, one travels far."
~J.R.R. Tolkien~
"You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else."
~Albert Einstein~
"You can have everything in life you want,
if you will just help other people get what they want."
~Zig Ziglar~
"To achieve great things, two things are needed;
a plan, and not quite enough time."
~Leonard Bernstein~
"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
~Eugene Delacroix~
"Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence.
Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures
you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish."
~Brian Tracy~
"Competition is a by-product of productive work,
not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the
desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
~Ayn Rand~
"Achievement is largely the product of steadily
raising one's levels of aspiration ... and expectation."
~Jack Nicklaus~
