#achievement

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. ↗

— Conrad Hilton

#men

The greatest investment one can ever make is the investment into humanity, for an achievement based on positive influence into people's life can stand the test of time, survive through the mortality of men and resound endlessly through posterity ↗

— Uzoma Ezeson

#greatest #investment #men

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#focus #goals #goals

It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--or impossible-- to lose. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#achievement #treasured #worth #fighting

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#failure #luck #near-hits #near-misses #nearly

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#ambition #brave #caring #devotion #victory

Trust what you know; have faith in where you go; if there's no wind, row; or go with the flow. ↗

— Ed Parrish III

#act #believe-in-yourself #confidence #direction #faith

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to? ↗

— Ayn Rand

#admiration #atlas-shrugged #inspirational #love #objectivism

Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy. ↗

— Rodolfo Costa

#attitude #awareness #happiness #opportunity #optimism

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#achievements #asking #envisaged #had #him