ACHIEVEMENT
Quotes
1
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.
— Althea Gibson Darben
2
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.
— Ginger Rogers
3
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
— Tom Lehrer
4
Men too involved in details usually become unable to deal with great matters.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
5
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
— E. B. White
6
There may now exist great men for things that do not exist.
— Samuel Burchardt
7
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
— Mark Twain
8
Restlessness is discontent--and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
— Thomas Alva Edison
9
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg--not by smashing it.
— Ellen Glasgow
10
Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man’s thinking and writing.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
11
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
— Laurence J. Peter
12
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
— Sam Rayburn
13
To achieve great things, we must live as though we are never going to die.
— Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues
14
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
— Samuel Johnson
15
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
16
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them.
— Benjamin Jowett
17
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
18
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
— Matthew 5:14-16
19
No man knows what he can do till he tries. — Publilinus Syrus
20
There are only two ways of getting on in the world; by one’s own industry, or by the weaknesses of others.
— Jean de La Bruyere
21
None climbs so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
— Oliver Cromwell
22
The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his ass.
— General Joseph Stillwell
23
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
— Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel
24
If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you...It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.
— Maxwell Anderson
25
In this world there are only two tragedies: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
— Oscar Wilde
26
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
27
What we call results are beginnings.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
28
Well done is better than well said.
— Benjamin Franklin
29
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
30
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
— George Bernard Shaw
Sayings
1
The cards you hold in the game of life mean very little-- it’s the way you play them that counts.
2
A man’s deeds are his life.
— West African saying
3
Aiming isn’t hitting.
— East African saying
4
The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.
— Slogan of the United States Army Service Forces
5
Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something done right is an achievement.
6
They said it couldn’t be done, but we did it.
7
Those who dare do; those who dare not, do not.
Jokes
1
When her formal education was over, a young woman went out into the world to start her own business. After a year, she reported that she was worth $5,000, but her parents merely smiled. After a few more years her net worth had grown to some $15,000, and each year it increased by modest amounts, but her parents never had more than a smile or pat on the back for her.
Then one year she came home and announced that in order to keep the business going, she’d have to borrow a million dollars. At this her father bounded up from the sofa, clapped her on the back, and crowed, “Now that’s an achievement!”
2
“What a superb performance,” gushed the woman when the recital was over. “I’d give half my life to be able to