Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Achievement Quotes
An achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove we are as good today as we were yesterday.
Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men’s virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person’s real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battle.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements, and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end result of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline […]
To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.
The achiever is the only individual who is truly alive.
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Even when people are more successful than they had imagined, nothing is ever achieved without giving something up.
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
