Quotes About Achievement

Someday" ("someday I'll do this, someday I'll do that") is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

One has to remain detached in order to triumph over others

The weight placed upon the value of competitive succes is so great in our culture and the anxiety occasioned by the possibility of failure to achieve this goal is so prevalent that there is reason for assuming that individual competitive succes is both the dominant goal in our culture and the most pervasive ocassion for anxiety.

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.

He had a good dream, to come out number one." But the other son accurately sees the contradiction which such an upheaval of values leads to, "He never knew who he was."*

Among the works of man,

You've always gone all the way, haven't you? — Well, all the way doesn't turn out to be so very far, after all...

A volte l'impossibile ha una mano felice.

In general I strive for greatness and rational achievement, but I admit to you I've a terrible fondness for women, a tendency towards drunkenness, and a weakness for the fumes of the poppy—opium and other miserable beauties.

The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.

In fact, no immigrant in American history has ever made a larger contribution than Alexander Hamilton.

Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.

As my Dad says in these pages, the success our family has achieved is something no of us takes for granted. It wasn't destined. And we could have just as easily ended up Oklahoma farmers as Hollywood creators. As is so often the way, a few breaks in a different direction, in what might feel like fate would have unfolded along a now unrecognizable path.

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.

If somebody wants to compete, I'll just pull out enough to win.

All people are self-made. Only the successful people admit it.

It was easier to be the headstrong monk, a boy on a long-shot mission, before he actually won anything. With the prize in hand, he realized his single-minded drive came across as aloof cockiness; his painful martyrdom certainly looked like self-nomination for sainthood. He's not sure he can keep up this exhausting, aw-shucks façade for much longer.

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

You are livin'," she says in feigned exasperation. "You just don't see what I see. You got something special. Something you got from your ma. It's a thing. I mean, I wish I had it. It's this thing where you know what it's going to take, and then you get it done. You push yourself and you get there.

I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.

But why is it that when you win you must also lose?

His [de Sade's] achievement is that before the Romantic movement had been launched, he succeeded in making solipsism look like omniscience.

THIS BOOK HAS been over a quarter of a century in the making,