#achievement

"Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace…."

"Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?"

"Achievement has no color"

"There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

"Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement."

"If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song."

"Patience is so valuable I'm willing to wait forever to achieve it. And while I wait, I may as well get busy being short-tempered."

"Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live."

"When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees."

"To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'."

"Try to turn as many soft, aspirational goals as possible into success criteria, and make them specific enough that you can actually tell whether or not you've met them."

"There is no one who is happier than the person who is able to control his or her life. Who does what he /she thinks its right. Who pleases himself before everyone. Who doesn't suffer from what people will say syndrome. When you have time . Find a way to please yourself. Then you will be happiest person alive."

"When the awareness of what is achievable brushes your life, your journey has begun."

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

"If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy."

"Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you."

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

"Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail."

"The roughest roads often lead to the top."