Quotes about Achievement

The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.

If people are not laughing at your goals,then your goals are too small

I am thankful for all those who said no to me. It's because of them I am doing it myself!

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Elisabeth Elliot is more precise when she explains that "freedom and discipline have come to be regarded as mutually exclusive, when in fact freedom is not at all the opposite, but the final reward, of discipline.

Freedom through discipline is the idea behind what has become known as "the ten-thousand-hour rule."

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be."

I like to think of the word FOCUS as Follow One Course Until Successful.

Whatever your life' work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.