“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”
– Golda Meir
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
– Helen Keller
“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.”
– Cesar Chavez
“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.”
– Ayn Rand
“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”
– Woodrow Wilson
“Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.”
– Paul Ryan
“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”
– Napoleon Hill
“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”
– Theodore Isaac Rubin
“Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.”
– C. S. Lewis
“Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one’s origins and one’s final achievement.”
– Michael Korda
“Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.”
– W. Clement Stone
“The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.”
– Reinhold Niebuhr
“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.”
– Bo Bennett
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.”
– Ayn Rand
