A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

All great achievements require time.

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.