Quotes Tagged ‘Achievement’

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Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.

—Chinese Proverb

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I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.

—Michael Jordan

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Nothing great was ever achieved by being a wimp.

—Katherine DaSilva

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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

—Truman Capote

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Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

—General Patton

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I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

—Marilyn Monroe

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Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth, and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world.

—Brenda Peterson

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

—Trinidad Hunt

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It’s not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted.

—Marie O’Conner

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He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory is a benediction.

—Bessie A. Stanley

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The distance is nothing; it’s only the first step that is difficult.

—Marquise du Deffand

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Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

—John Wooden

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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

—Bette Davis

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