Quotes about Achievement
Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.
— Og Mandino
America is the only place where man is full-grown!
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.
— Henry David Thoreau
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made
— Henry David Thoreau
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
— Donald Trump
You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses
— Bill Gates
It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.
— Mark Cuban
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
— Edmund Hillary
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
— Barack Obama
Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.
— John Malkovich
I think sometimes you just lose your focus, and I think that's easy to do when you start getting more fame, more money, more power.
— Joel Osteen