Quotes about Achievement

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

My gad, one of them, warrant officer pilot, captain and M. C. in turn said to me once; if you can treat a crate that way, why do you want to fly at all?

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease.

the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

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.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.