Quotes about Achievement

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."

If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.

If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.