Quotes about Achievement

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

You can't reach perfection unless you reach zero seconds - it's just the constant chase for perfection.

We want to take ourselves out of our comfort zones; when you're in your comfort zone for so long, you only play to a certain level.

The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."

If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.

If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.