Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration . . and expectation.

- Jack Niklaus Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. - Conrad Hilton All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do. - Zig Ziglar View all quotes by Zig Ziglar, click here By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning. - Lao Tzu View all quotes by Lao Tzu, click here Death comes to all. But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. - George Fabricius Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work! - H.L. Hunt 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 Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability. - John Wooden

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. - Norman Vincent Peale Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field. - Brian Tracy View all quotes by Brian Tracy, click here Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory. - Mahatma Gandhi View all quotes by Mahatma Gandhi, click here Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. - Frank Clark Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul - Charles Buxton Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. - Napoleon Hill View all quotes by Napoleon Hill, click here Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent Van Gogh View all quotes by Vincent Van Gogh, click here High achievement always takes place in a framework of high expectation. - Jack Kinder

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. - Pablo Picasso View all quotes by Pablo Picasso, click here I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. Almost none of my inventions were derived in that manner. They were achieved by having trained myself to be analytical and to endure and tolerate hard work. - Thomas Edison View all quotes by Thomas Edison, click here If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy. - A. P. Gouthey If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. - Orville Wright If you care at all, you'll get some results. If you care enough, you'll get incredible results. - Jim Rohn View all quotes by Jim Rohn, click here If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner. - Zig Ziglar View all quotes by Zig Ziglar, click here If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water. On dry land, no frame of mind is ever going to help you. - Bruce Lee View all quotes by Bruce Lee, click here In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

- Donald Trump View all quotes by Donald Trump, click here Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him. - Golo Mann Mere longevity is a good things for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity. - Gabriel Heatter Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. - Dag Hammarskjold Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson View all quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson, click here Nothing is as difficulty as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas. - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances. - Bruce Barton Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing. - Zig Ziglar View all quotes by Zig Ziglar, click here

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance. - Brian Tracy View all quotes by Brian Tracy, click here Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish. - Brian Tracy View all quotes by Brian Tracy, click here Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory. - Mahatma Gandhi View all quotes by Mahatma Gandhi, click here Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. - Mahatma Gandhi View all quotes by Mahatma Gandhi, click here Somehow I can't believe there are many heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret can be summarized in four C's. They are: curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence. - Walt Disney The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. - Napoleon Hill View all quotes by Napoleon Hill, click here The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves. - Bob Proctor View all quotes by Bob Proctor, click here

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished. - Benjamin Franklin View all quotes by Benjamin Franklin, click here The true free living human-being is the one that achieves his dream without depending on someone. - Lao Tzu View all quotes by Lao Tzu, click here The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way. - Anthony Robbins View all quotes by Anthony Robbins, click here To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson View all quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson, click here To have more than you've got, become more than you are. - Jim Rohn View all quotes by Jim Rohn, click here What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. - Benjamin Disraeli View all quotes by Benjamin Disraeli, click here What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination. - Zig Ziglar View all quotes by Zig Ziglar, click here

Without passion, you don't have energy; without energy, you have nothing. Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. - Donald Trump View all quotes by Donald Trump, click here You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. - Zig Ziglar View all quotes by Zig Ziglar, click here You've got to be before you can do, and do before you can have. - Zig Ziglar View all quotes by Zig Ziglar, click here

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson View all quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson, click here Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again. - Michael Johnson View all quotes by Michael Johnson, click here Before success comes in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. - Napoleon Hill View all quotes by Napoleon Hill, click here

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind. - Bruce Lee View all quotes by Bruce Lee, click here Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. - Josephus Daniels Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. - Dale Carnegie View all quotes by Dale Carnegie, click here Don't judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try. - Unknown Author Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. - Napoleon Bonaparte Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. - Zig Ziglar View all quotes by Zig Ziglar, click here Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure. - Brian Tracy View all quotes by Brian Tracy, click here Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. - Jim Rohn View all quotes by Jim Rohn, click here Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely. - Unknown Author

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. - Henry Ford View all quotes by Henry Ford, click here Failure is success if we learn from it. - Malcolm Forbes Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved. - Lao Tzu View all quotes by Lao Tzu, click here For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. - Ralph Waldo Emerson View all quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson, click here For more people to become entrepreneurs, we have to change our attitude towards those who fail. - Lee Kuan Yew Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein View all quotes by Albert Einstein, click here He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. - Napoleon Bonaparte I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. - Thomas Edison View all quotes by Thomas Edison, click here I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

- Oprah Winfrey View all quotes by Oprah Winfrey, click here I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. - Bill Cosby I have learnt more from my mistakes than from my success. - Sir Humpry Davy I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occassions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot . . . and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why . . . I succeed. - Michael Jordon I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas Edison View all quotes by Thomas Edison, click here I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. - Muhammad Ali View all quotes by Muhammad Ali, click here I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. - Lou Holtz If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully redesigned, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and with it, opportunity. - Peter Drucker View all quotes by Peter Drucker, click here

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed. - Anthony Robbins View all quotes by Anthony Robbins, click here In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. - Vince Lombardi View all quotes by Vince Lombardi, click here In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. - Anthony J. D'Angelo Incorrect assumptionslie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumption. - Brian Tracy View all quotes by Brian Tracy, click here It does not matter the number of times we fall but the number of times we rise when we fall. - Confucius View all quotes by Confucius, click here It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you. - Brian Tracy View all quotes by Brian Tracy, click here It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. - David Feherty I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

- Anthony Robbins View all quotes by Anthony Robbins, click here Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. - Thomas Edison View all quotes by Thomas Edison, click here Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. . . . Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try. - Sherman Finesilver Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up. - Unknown Author Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker. - Zig Ziglar View all quotes by Zig Ziglar, click here Many a one has succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat, he would never have known any great victory. - Orison Swett Marden Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison View all quotes by Thomas Edison, click here Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned. - Struther Burt

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. - Napoleon Hill View all quotes by Napoleon Hill, click here Most people fail in life because they major in minor things. - Anthony Robbins View all quotes by Anthony Robbins, click here Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats. - Napoleon Hill View all quotes by Napoleon Hill, click here My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. - Abraham Lincoln View all quotes by Abraham Lincoln, click here Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be succesful. - Brian Tracy View all quotes by Brian Tracy, click here No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. - Napoleon Hill View all quotes by Napoleon Hill, click here Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert Francis Kennedy Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt. - William Shakespeare View all quotes by William Shakespeare, click here

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. - Vincent Van Gogh View all quotes by Vincent Van Gogh, click here Past failures are the guidepost for future success. - Unknown Author Remember, you only have to succeed the last time. - Brian Tracy View all quotes by Brian Tracy, click here Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success - Dowden Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure. - Dell Crossword The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Nelson Mandela View all quotes by Nelson Mandela, click here The harder you fall, the higher you bounce. - Unknown Author The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost. - George Shultz The only real failure in life is one not learned from. - Anthony J. D'Angelo The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success. - H.W. Arnold

Turn your wounds into wisdom. - Oprah Winfrey View all quotes by Oprah Winfrey, click here Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen. - Phillip Adams What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. - Wendell Phillips What people see of my success is only one percent but what they don't see is the 99 percent which are my failures. - Soichiro Honda When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. - Napoleon Hill View all quotes by Napoleon Hill, click here When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell View all quotes by Alexander Graham Bell, click here You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there. - Zig Ziglar View all quotes by Zig Ziglar, click here You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded. - Michael Johnson View all quotes by Michael Johnson, click here

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. - Bruce Lee View all quotes by Bruce Lee, click here All men by nature desire to know. - Aristotle View all quotes by Aristotle, click here Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. - Henry Ford View all quotes by Henry Ford, click here Be a lifelong student. The moreyou learn, the more you earn and more self confidence you will have. - Brian Tracy View all quotes by Brian Tracy, click here Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. - Plato View all quotes by Plato, click here CANI! - (pronounced kuhn-EYE) stands for Constant And Neverending Improvement. - Anthony Robbins View all quotes by Anthony Robbins, click here Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. - Jim Rohn View all quotes by Jim Rohn, click here

Doubt grows with knowledge. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe View all quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, click here Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. - Napoleon Hill View all quotes by Napoleon Hill, click here Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another. - Nelson Mandela View all quotes by Nelson Mandela, click here Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. - Nelson Mandela View all quotes by Nelson Mandela, click here Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. - Albert Einstein View all quotes by Albert Einstein, click here Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm Forbes Employ your time in improving yourself by other mens writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. - Socrates

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library. - Jim Rohn View all quotes by Jim Rohn, click here First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe View all quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, click here Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn View all quotes by Jim Rohn, click here Genius without education is like silver in the mine. - Benjamin Franklin View all quotes by Benjamin Franklin, click here How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant. - John Abbott I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. - Albert Einstein View all quotes by Albert Einstein, click here I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. - Confucius View all quotes by Confucius, click here

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. - Henry Ford View all quotes by Henry Ford, click here If someone is going down the wrong road, he does not need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around . - Jim Rohn View all quotes by Jim Rohn, click here If you don't ask, you don't get. - Mahatma Gandhi View all quotes by Mahatma Gandhi, click here I'm not a master, I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning, So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word master, I consider the master as such when they close the casket. - Bruce Lee View all quotes by Bruce Lee, click here Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. - Albert Einstein View all quotes by Albert Einstein, click here In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life-it goes on - Robert Frost Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production.

- Brian Tracy View all quotes by Brian Tracy, click here Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. - Albert Einstein View all quotes by Albert Einstein, click here Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. - Albert Einstein View all quotes by Albert Einstein, click here It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe View all quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, click here It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. - Wilbur Wright It's obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything. - Thomas Edison View all quotes by Thomas Edison, click here Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. - Peter Drucker View all quotes by Peter Drucker, click here Knowledge is an antidote to fear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson View all quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson, click here Knowledge is only potential power. - Napoleon Hill View all quotes by Napoleon Hill, click here

Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits. - Brian Tracy View all quotes by Brian Tracy, click here Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment. - Leonardo Da Vinci View all quotes by Leonardo Da Vinci, click here Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. - Jim Rohn View all quotes by Jim Rohn, click here Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. - Confucius View all quotes by Confucius, click here Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. - Confucius View all quotes by Confucius, click here Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Mahatma Gandhi View all quotes by Mahatma Gandhi, click here Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book. - Jim Rohn View all quotes by Jim Rohn, click here

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. - Ralph Waldo Emerson View all quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson, click here Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. - Anthony Robbins View all quotes by Anthony Robbins, click here Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. View all quotes by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., click here Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, 50 books per year, and will guarantee your success. - Brian Tracy View all quotes by Brian Tracy, click here Reading makes a full Man, Meditation a profound Man, discourse a clear Man. - Benjamin Franklin View all quotes by Benjamin Franklin, click here Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. - Confucius View all quotes by Confucius, click here The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known. - Leonardo Da Vinci View all quotes by Leonardo Da Vinci, click here

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown. - Albert Einstein View all quotes by Albert Einstein, click here The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. - Plato View all quotes by Plato, click here The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. - Aristotle View all quotes by Aristotle, click here The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it to confess your ignorance. - Confucius View all quotes by Confucius, click here The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. - Confucius View all quotes by Confucius, click here The fool wonders, the wise man asks. - Benjamin Disraeli View all quotes by Benjamin Disraeli, click here The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. - Henry Ford View all quotes by Henry Ford, click here

The only source of knowledge is experience. - Albert Einstein View all quotes by Albert Einstein, click here The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. - Aristotle View all quotes by Aristotle, click here The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. - Albert Einstein View all quotes by Albert Einstein, click here There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance. - Buddha View all quotes by Buddha, click here There is only one good, which is knowledge, and one evil, which is ignorance. - Plato View all quotes by Plato, click here Things have their root and their branches. Affairs have their end and their beginning. To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning. - Confucius View all quotes by Confucius, click here Think and grow rich. - Napoleon Hill View all quotes by Napoleon Hill, click here Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.

- Leonardo Da Vinci View all quotes by Leonardo Da Vinci, click here Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power" to "mind power". We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle. - Brian Tracy View all quotes by Brian Tracy, click here To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. - Benjamin Disraeli View all quotes by Benjamin Disraeli, click here To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. - Henry David Thoreau Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. - Peter Drucker View all quotes by Peter Drucker, click here True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. - Socrates Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. - Benjamin Disraeli View all quotes by Benjamin Disraeli, click here We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. - Thomas Edison View all quotes by Thomas Edison, click here

We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want. - Jim Rohn View all quotes by Jim Rohn, click here We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. - Peter Drucker View all quotes by Peter Drucker, click here We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. - Albert Einstein View all quotes by Albert Einstein, click here When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. - Confucius View all quotes by Confucius, click here When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it this is knowledge. - Confucius View all quotes by Confucius, click here