Press on- nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge
The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come. C.S. Lewis
Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. Conrad Hilton
There are no shortcuts to life’s greatest achievements. Anonymous
Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish. Brian Tracy
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. Alfred North Whitehead
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. Woodrow Wilson
You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. Robert Collier
Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have. Jean-Paul Sartre
There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting. Dr. Theodor Reik
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. General George Smith Patton, Jr.
Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage. Frederick Pierce
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. Napolean Hill
A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high. William Sharp
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. Ayn Rand
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. Eric Hoffer
Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don’t, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit. Hugh Nibley
Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. . . . Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement. Leo J. Muir
To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth. Anonymous
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success. Helen Hayes
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. William Blake
Never mistake activity for achievement. John Wooden
This became a credo of mine . . . attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. Bette Davis
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce. Anonymous
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective. General Dwight David Eisenhower
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities And be a member of the team. In no country but America, I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements. Benjamin F. Fairless
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances. Bruce Barton
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford
Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. Orison Swett Marden
Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something. Thomas Alva Edison
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success. Orison Swett Marden
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan
The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful. Alfred Adler
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration . . and expectation. Jack Niklaus
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. General George Smith Patton, Jr.
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities And be a member of the team. In no country but America, I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements. Benjamin F. Fairless
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. Vince Lombardi
If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty. Heber J. Grant
Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. Anonymous
Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we might have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do. Gian-Carlo Menotti
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert Francis Kennedy
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. Frank Clark
Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. Anonymous
I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them. Pablo Picasso
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are. Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a questions he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. Oliver Wendell Holmes
I have searched for many years for the definition of Success, in the context of leading a successful life. It turns out that there are as many definitions as there are seekers and that success lies as much in the attempt as in the achievement. Anonymous
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. Niccoló Machiavelli
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. H. L. Hunt
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek. Mario Andretti
