"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses." Napoleon Hill

"The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality" Carl Jung

"There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting." J. G. Holland

 
"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement." Charles F. Kettering

 
"Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."  Napoleon Hill


"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." Vincent Van Gogh

"Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small." Gordon Parks

"The future is not a gift -- it is an achievement." Harry Lauder

"If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy."  A. P. Gouthey

"Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances." Orison Swett Marden

"To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory." Brendan Behan

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that." Norman Vincent Peale

"An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement." Albert Camus

"So much to do, so little done, such things to be." Lord Alfred Tennyson

"Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows cold." Georg Fabricius