Quotes about Achievement

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty?one that everything afterward savors of anti?climax.

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.

In his book The Sensation of Being Somebody, Maurice Wagner wrote: Try as we might by our appearance, performance or social status to find self-verification for a sense of being somebody, we always come short of satisfaction. Whatever pinnacle of self-identity we achieve soon crumbles

I want to continue to climb up the mountain of life and try to get everything that God has for me.