Nothing is achieved without solitude. [ Lacordaire ]

Experience is by industry achieved,
And perfected by the swift course of time. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentleman of Verona ]

Honors achieved tar axceed those that are created. [ Solon ]

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. [ Ovid ]

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. [ Barrow ]

Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. [ S. Smiles ]

The little (achieved) is soon forgotten by him who looks before him and sees how much still remains to be done. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved. [ Johnson ]

Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen and chariots. [ William M. Paxton ]

Have you known how to compose your manners, you have achieved a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to attain repose, you have achieved more than he who has taken cities and subdued empires. [ Montaigne ]

It is not ease, but effort - not facility, but difficulty, that makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved. [ Samuel Smiles ]

How many who, after having achieved fame and fortune, recall with regret the time when - ascending the hills of life in the sun of their twentieth year - they had nothing but courage, which is the virtue of the young, and hope, which is the treasure of the poor! [ H. Murger ]