Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
— Helen Keller
Revealing Achievement And Success quotations
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal;
you do not change your decision to get there.
A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.
Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.
Success is not achieved by winning all the time.
Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back.
To all of you I should like to say that in the course of this war you will have to acquire the experience and achieve the success which alone can build up a national tradition for our Army. An army that has no tradition of courage, fearlessness and invincibility cannot hold its own in a struggle with a powerful enemy.
No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.
Human beings are capable of virtually limitless degradation;
they are also capable of virtually limitless improvement and achievement. Success depends on goals and on diligence in pursuing them.
Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas;
its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.
I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.
Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success!
My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.
Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.
Everything that is loved, if it is not loved for His sake then this love is nothing but distress and punishment. Every action that is not performed for His sake then it is wasted and severed. Every heart that does not reach Him is wretched; veiled from achieving its success and happiness.
Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.
Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Add to this the pride of achievement;
the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples.
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts.
It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.
Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.
Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others.
The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
In God's eyes, the greatest heroes of faith are not those who achieve prosperity, success, and power in this life, but those who treat life as a temporary assignment and serve faithfully, expecting their promised reward in eternity.
To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve.
And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try, and keep trying, for there is nothing to lose by trying and a great deal to gain if successful. By all means TRY! Do it NOW!!!
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others.
The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill;
and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
Success is the best revenge for anything. Keep ya head down and work hard to achieve.
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream.
Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.
Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.