The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Achievement Quotes
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.
Sad spectacle that man should live and be fed that he may fill a paragraph in the newspaper for his wonderful age, as we record the weight and girth of the Big Ox and Mammoth Girl. We don’t count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For 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. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving […]
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
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.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstances.
