Quotes about Achievement

When you do your work better To-day than Yesterday you realize your genuine Capacity and know that there is no actual Perfection except the Perfection of doing better To-day than Yesterday.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A quitter never wins—and a winner never quits. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work.

I feel like every day, every minute I have to make the most of.

We can judge our success at work in many ways. Usually we judge it by how much money we make, what title we have, and how much others recognize our achievements. But if you can go to work each day as a bodhisattva, if your presence at work brings you and others joy, then you have a successful work life. You have succeeded in the present moment, the only moment that exists.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.

I firmly believe in luck. And I noticed: the more I work, the luckier I become.

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

must become convinced and penetrated by the realization that without my love for them they may perhaps not achieve the things God has willed for them.

Greatness is never achieved nor dreams realized apart from great discipline.