86 Quotes About Achievement

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

What you can't go through, God will help you fly over.

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

They always win who side with God.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't."

God does not choose those who are fit. He outfits those whom He chooses.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

If you don't do your part, don't blame God.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

Fear God and work hard.

Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Alleged "impossibilities" are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Prospect is often better than possession.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

Put the very best construction on the actions of others.

The ambitious climbs up high and perilous stairs, and never cares how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall.

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.

Sum up at night what thou hast done by day, and in the morning what thou hast to do; dress and undress thy soul; mark the decay or growth of it. If with thy watch, that too be down, then wind up both. Since thou shalt be most surely judged, make thine accounts agree.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.

Little opportunities should be improved.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.

I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition.

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

Ability is sexless.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.