The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
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.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.
Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.