Quotes about Achievement
If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they'll never happen.
— Jason Fried
Failure is not a prerequisite for success.
— Jason Fried
Nothing ever stops at the quarterly win. There are four quarters to a year. Forty to a decade. Every one of them has to produce, exceed, and beat EXPECTATIONS.
— Jason Fried
I don't need time, I need a deadline.
— Duke Ellington
A problem is a chance for you to do your best
— Duke Ellington
I don't need time. What I need is a deadline.
— Duke Ellington
Under the glitter of their opportunities she saw the poverty of their achievement.
— Edith Wharton
Obviously he had aspired too high, or been too impatient; but it was his nature to be aspiring and impatient, and if he was to succeed it must be on the lines of his own character.
— Edith Wharton
Will-power, he saw, was not a thing one could suddenly decree oneself to possess. It must be built up imperceptibly and laboriously out of a succession of small efforts to meet definite objects, out of the facing of daily difficulties instead of cleverly eluding them, or shifting their burden on others.
— Edith Wharton
She still did and was all that Undine had so sedulously learned not to be and to do; but to dwell on these obstacles to her success was to be more deeply impressed by the fact that she had nevertheless succeeded.
— Edith Wharton
ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be opened through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle.
— Edmund Burke
An achievement is bondage.It obliges one to a higher achievement.
— Albert Camus