Quotes about Achievement
Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The day is always (hers or) his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The law of nature is: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, but they who do not the thing have not the power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm...Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
- 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
To be able to accept the wonder and the marvel of one's own personality, however flawed or 'accidental,' and place it in and trust it to the hands of the One who made it, is one of the greatest achievements in life.
- Ravi Zacharias