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Quotes about Achievement

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
— Walt Disney
Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.
— Washington Irving
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
— Washington Irving
It's the squeeze we've endured that proves to the world that the final product is worth it.
— Darlene Zschech
Anything worth achieving in this life requires time, patience, and some discomfort.
— Darlene Zschech
Deep down, our single greatest fear is to live a life of insignificance, to come to the end of our life and feel like we never really did anything that mattered. That is our greatest fear.
— Dave Ferguson
Since finite games are played to be won, players make every move in the game in order to win it. Whatever is not done in the interest of winning is not part of the game. The constant attentiveness of finite players to the progress of the competition can lead them to believe that every move they make they must make.
— James Carse
We display the success of what we have done by not having to do anything.
— James Carse
If wealth and might are to be performed, great wealth and great might must be performed brilliantly.
— James Carse
Life in death concerns those who are titled and whose titles, since they are timeless, may not be extinguished by death. Immortality, in this case, is not a reward but the condition necessary to the possession of rewards. Victors live forever not because their souls are unaffected by death but because their titles must not be forgotten.
— James Carse
What the winner of a finite game wins is a title. A title is the acknowledgment of others that one has been the winner of a particular game. I cannot entitle myself. Titles are theatrical, requiring an audience to bestow and respect them.
— James Carse
The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.
— Dorothy Sayers