Quotes about Achievement

A dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Great vision precedes great achievement.

Success can be defined as the progressive realization of a predetermined goal.

Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride. Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning.

Most people tend to underestimate the time it takes to achieve something of value, but to be successful, you have to be willing to pay your dues. James Watt spent twenty years laboring to perfect his steam engine. William Harvey labored night and day for eight years to prove how blood circulated in the human body. And it took another twenty-five years for the medical profession to acknowledge he was right.

You have to experience a lot of failure to achieve success. And the more failure you go through, the higher your success.

Self-discipline is a quality that is won through practice. Psychologist Joseph Mancusi noted, "Truly successful people have learned to do what does not come naturally. Real success lies in experiencing fear or aversion and acting in spite of it.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The Unrealistic Expectation Trap For some reason, many people think everything in life should be easy, and when they find out that achievement takes effort, they give up. But success takes hard work.

I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline," said Vince Lombardi. "I firmly believe that any man's finest hour—this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear—is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle—victorious.

You can't take the team to the next level when you haven't mastered the skills it takes to succeed on a personal level. It just doesn't happen.