Quotes About Overachievement

My philosophy is that on a scale of 1 to 10, I will go to 15. No matter what!

You too may be paying heavily for your perfectionism.

How long have we got to talk about women of colour and imposter syndrome. It's a real thing, and many people have it. It's, I think, a particular characteristic of the overachiever. Because you're bottomless, you never think what you've achieved is enough.

Some adults abused as children feel pressure to outperform everybody else. They believe that they must try harder and work harder because they are not as good. They may feel driven and obsessed.

why kill two birds with one stone when you can kill twelve

If you do a job too well, you'll get stuck with it.

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.

Since the Vorkosigan family motto might as well be, Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving

My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do that. I don't mean to complicate things. It's just - why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there's no dill in the house?

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.

Most of the time when I don't set goals, I always exceed whatever goal people have.