Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.
Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
One point of view gives a one dimensional world.
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
"Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it and secures its achievement. To think we are able is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.
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