Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. . . . Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement.
- Leo J. Muir


Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.
- Wayne Dyer


There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
- Mark Twain


Competition is a by product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
- Ayn Rand


A hero is born among a hundred, A wise man is found among a thousand, But an accomplished one might not be found Even among a hundred thousand men.
- Nagarjuna


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


The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
- Thomas Edison


Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.
- Aeschylus


Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
- Conrad Hilton


People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
- Brian Tracy


More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, And nothing else.
- Plato


I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
- Earl Warren


Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
- Longfellow

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.
- Nido Qubein

I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
- Pearl S. Buck

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
- Ed Parker

No matter who you are it’s the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.
- Ronaldo

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration… and expectation.
- Jack Nicklaus

Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.
- William Arthur Ward

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn’t for him, we’d be watching television by candlelight.
- Milton Berle