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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new read more
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, read more
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was read more
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with read more
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
