Quotes about Achievement
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."
— Winston Churchill
By perseverance the snails reached the ark.
— Charles Spurgeon
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.
— Booker T. Washington
Luck is good planning, carefully executed.
— Anonymous
We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.
— Toni Morrison
No guts, no glory.
— Anonymous
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
— Henry David Thoreau
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
— Abraham Lincoln
Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.
— Phillips Brooks
One step and then another, and the longest walk is ended. One stitch and then another, and the longest rent is mended. One brick upon another, and the tallest wall is made. One flake and then another, and the deepest snow is laid.
— Anonymous