Quotes About Achievement

If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.

If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.

To want to be ahead, and to celebrate and mythify this endeavor, is indeed one of the most powerful impulses of modernity itself.

Success flows from perspiration, and inspiration from diligence and effort.

Western parents worry a lot about their children's self-esteem. But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for your child's self-esteem is to let them give up. On the flip side, there's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.

What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it.

That's why I liked the Suzuki method of teaching piano. There are seven books, and everybody has to start with Book One. Each book includes ten to fifteen songs, and you have to go in order. Kids who practice hard get assigned new songs each week, whereas kids who don't practice get stuck on the same song for weeks, even months, and sometimes just quit because they're bored out of their minds.

Scars can mark you for greatness.

knowing I had finally arrived where my life said I belonged.

And once you reached the top, you would be able to see everything and feel such happiness it would be enough to never have worries in your life ever again.

No puedes tener suerte cuando otra persona tiene habilidad.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

You can't have luck when someone else has skills

ethnicity? And I remembered reading an article about baby boomers, how we expect the best and when we get it we worry that maybe we should have expected more, because it's all diminishing returns after a certain age.

La holgazanería podrá parecer atractiva, pero la satisfacción sólo la da el trabajo.

Toda persona tiene dentro de él algo bueno. La noticia es que usted no sabe lo grande que puede ser. Cuando se puede amar, ¡Cuánto se puede lograr!.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

A few central myths appear again and again in Americans' popular imagination: that success is available to anyone who is willing to work hard, for example, and that success is worthier of celebration if it is achieved without help.

The benefit of thinking you will die at fifty is that it can spur you to accomplish a lot of things at a young age, which is what I have attempted to do, but now the prospect of living longer makes me uncertain about the plans I've made.

Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.

There's a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired..

How beautiful to dream. But dreams, I tell Gil, in one of our quiet moments are so damned tiring. He laughs. I can't promise you that you won't be tired, he says. But please know this. There's a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired, Andre. That's where you're going to know yourself. On the other side of tired.