Quotations on Achievement

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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.   - Helen Keller

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. -- Vince Lombardi

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.-- George Bernard Shaw

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. -- Dale Carnegie

There is no limit to what can be done if it doesn't matter who gets the credit - Author Unknown

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.  Mark Twain

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.   - Rusty Berkus

Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.   - Jonathan Swift

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.  - William Blake