Quotes about Achievement

Skill + hard work = SuccessSkill + hard work + prayer = Great success

Thirty-five things have to go wrong for the best thing to happen in your career

Few find success without hard work and determination. Those who do have hardly gained anything for themselves that they deserve.

I was blessed throughout my entire career. I had people rooting for me. It started with my parents, but it extended to almost every teacher that I had.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

A firm confidence that the blessing is actually within our reach is the first step toward obtaining it and a powerful impulse in the pursuit.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

Driven by petty ambition, we serve only ourselves. St. Josemaria put it well: "Those who are 'ambitious,' with small, personal, miserable ambitions, cannot understand that the friends of God should seek to achieve something through a spirit of service and without such'ambition.' " We should never confuse Christian humility and modesty with a will to underachieve.

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

Antiochus shall act prosperously according to his mental perception, and shall be so assisted by' his craftiness, as to obtain whatever he shall grasp at.

I have done one braver thingThan all the Worthies did;And yet a braver thence doth spring,Which is, to keep that hid.