Quotes about Achievement

The carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and deserved to win it

It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.

Satan finds some mischief still, for idle hands to do'...He might have written with as much truth, 'Satan finds some mischief for busy hands too.' The busy people achieve their full share of mischief in the world, you may rely upon it. What have the people been about, who have been the busiest in getting money, and in getting power, this century or two? No mischief?

In London, he had expected neither to walk on pavements of gold, nor to lie on beds of roses; if he had had any such exalted expectation, he would not have prospered. He had expected labour, and he found it, and did it and made the best of it. In this, his prosperity consisted.

It only shows how true the old saying is, that a man never knows what he can do till he tries, gentlemen. From "Pickwick Papers" ch. 49 page 646

Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task…

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Truly barren is a secular education. It is always in labor, but never gives birth.

Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. 869

Never give up on a dream just because of the length of time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. 1277

Don't work for recognition but do work worthy of recognition.

Never give up on a dream just because of the length of time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.