You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

What you get by achieving your goals is not nearly as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Source: http://www.ziglar.com/quotes/what-you-get-by-achieving-your-goals-is-2

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

Source: Thomas A. Edison, quoted by Addie Johnson in Life is Sweet: 333 Ways to Look on the Bright Side and Find the Happiness in … page 106.

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The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one’s opportunities and make the most of one’s resources.

Something you do with all your soul and with bliss, is already an achievement in itself. It doesn’t need to produce any results. It exists purely and only for the the pleasure of creating furthermore.