Quotes about Achievement

The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.

He had outlived the luxurious agonies of youthful blood, and in this very freedom from illusion he recognised the loss of something. From now on, every hour of light-heartedness would be, not a prerogative but an achievement - one more axe or case-bottle or fowling-piece, rescued, Crusoe-fashion, from a sinking ship.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

We are perfectly designed to achieve what we are currently achieving. If Christianity is in decline, at least part of the issue goes to the contemporary way we live out faith in a watching world.

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

Considering all that's happened in my life, I feel like I'm a pretty levelheaded person that has remained happy and not let my shortcomings overtake the better part of me. I'm fulfilling the things I wanted to fulfill, and I'm still sane.

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Nothing ever great was achieved without enthusiasm.

All promise outruns performance.

That man is idle who can do something better.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.