* To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.
Anonymous

* 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. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
Helen Hayes

* No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

* Never mistake activity for achievement.
John Wooden

* This became a credo of mine . . . attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis

  

* The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
Anonymous

* Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

* We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
General Dwight David Eisenhower

* What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities And be a member of the team. In no country but America, I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements.
Benjamin F. Fairless

* Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.
Bruce Barton

* Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford

* Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden

* Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas Alva Edison

* When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
Orison Swett Marden

* Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan

* The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful."
Alfred Adler