Quotes about Achievement

Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.

I didn't work hard to sit down and not work.

I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did.

I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

I never thought there had been need of so much wrestling to win to the top of that steep mountain as now I find.

I found fear stimulating. Particularly after you've done something that you'd been frightened of at the time, but you carried through and did the job.