Don’t let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life.

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Source: The Ayn Rand Letter (1971–1976)

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

Achievement – It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Source: Theodore Roosevelt; The Strenous Life “Speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, April 10, 1899” Complete Sentence: It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been stored up Read More…

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.