Inspirational Quotes on Achievement

“Progress is the real cure for an over estimate of ourselves.”

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

“No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind.”

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

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

“Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.”

“There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.”

“Goals help you overcome short-term problems.”

“The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion; makes the thought start into instant action, and at once plans and performs, resolves, and executes!”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

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

“While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.”

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

“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.”