Quotes about Achievement

Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality.

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.

I have been quoted as saying, 'Do the best you can.' But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

We too must work. Nothing happens in this world until there is work. You never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. You have to put your hands to the handles of the plow and walk forward. It is easier now, but the principle is the same. There must be work, and what a great and wonderful blessing that is.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.

All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. His suffering and happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is. As he continues to think, so he remains.