Quotes for Achievement
Saturday, March 3, 2007
Quotes for Achievement
- "The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
- "Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was."
- "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."
- Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully
- "A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change."
- "Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."
- "The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
- "We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best."
- "Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
- Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever.
