Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
—Helen Keller in Optimism
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
—Gail Devers
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
—Robert A. Heinlein
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
—Daniel J. Boorstin
Things are only impossible until they're not.
—Hannah Louise Shearer
Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
—Edward Thorndike
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
—James Thurber
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
—Charles Kettering
Have no fear of perfection—you'll never reach it.
—Salvador Dali
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
—A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Some animals, like some men, leave a trail of glory behind them. They give their spirit to the place where they have lived, and remain forever a part of the rocks and streams and the wind and sky.
—Marguerite Henry
Set a goal so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your mind.
—Rhonda Byrne in The Secret
To be free is to have achieved your life.
—Tennessee Williams
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
—Joan Klempner
We see achievement as purposeful and monolithic, like the sculpting of a massive tree trunk that has first to be brought from the forest and then shaped by long labor to assert the artist's vision, rather than something crafted from odds and ends, like a patchwork quilt, and lovingly used to warm different nights and bodies.
—Mary Catherine Bateson