Achieving Our Goals

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
- Thomas Alva Edison


Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
-Ben Franklin


"We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have."
– James R. Ball


"Making a mistake and then judging ourselves harshly is like paying compound interest on a bad investment."
– David March

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”
- Woodrow Wilson


Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.
- Mia Hamm


Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
- Vincent van Gogh

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
-VVG

It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.
- Mia Ha


Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather, achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.
- William Hastie


Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver


At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.
- Anna Garlin Spencer



It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
- Mabel Newcomber


One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn