The loftiest towers rise from the ground.

Chinese Proverb

Never mistake activity for achievement.

John Wooden

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Plutarch

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Brian Tracy

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

Matt Biondi

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

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

Helen Keller

In my career, there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved, but for me, my greatest achievement is my children and my family. It's about being a good father, a good husband, just being connected to family as much as possible.

David Beckham

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

Alan Shepard

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Nicholas M. Butler

The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.

James Heckman

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

John Kenneth Galbraith