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.
The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Never mistake activity for achievement.
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.
Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.
I have no regrets about doing 'Strictly.' This is the biggest achievement of my life.
Sir Gordon Richards was the most successful jockey - flat or jumps - there's ever been: champion jockey for 26 years. He set a record of 269 winners in the season 55 years before I broke it. That was my greatest achievement.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.
In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.