Quotes About Achievement

I'd spent so many months feeling like I was underwater, half in dreamland with those mermaids, hearing all the voices from up above. And since I'd been at Evergreen I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.

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Sarah Mlynowski

Successful people always have their next goal in mind.   Goals are dreams with deadlines.

Whatever you do, don't quit. You can make it to the top of the hill!   The

If there's one thing that I know for sure about success is that it begins with a decision to be successful, a commitment to seeing it through, and you just can't quit.

For years Melody had been making the same wish on every birthday candle, eyelash, wishbone, and shooting star that came her way, and now it had finally come true.

We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We always want to achieve something, rather than experience something. The opposite of this is Spiritual Consciousness. By that I mean you find enchantment in every action you do, rather in just the results of your action. Spiritual Consciousness is not a particular religion but a way of being.

Last guys don't finish nice.

I would never make a lion, I knew that; but I might pick up a small gain here and there in the attempt.

The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112).

The good die young, but I have been spared to build myself up so that I may end my life as good as gold. The senior dead will be proud of me.... I will join the Y.M.C.A. of the immortals. Only, in this very hour, I may be missing eternity.

Some men seem to know exactly where their opportunities lie; they break prisons and cross whole Siberias to pursue them. One room holds me.

I may well be a flop at this line of endeavor. Columbus too thought he was a flop, probably, when they sent him back in chains. Which didn't prove there was no America.

Of course! Easily or not at all. People were mad to be knocking themselves out over difficulties because they thought difficulty was a sign of the right thing.

Ramona je ušutjela a Herzog je rekao: - Istina je - još mnogo toga trebam nau?iti. Ali marljiv sam. Radim na tom i stalno se osje?a napredak. Vjerujem da ?u biti u odli?noj formi na samrtnoj postelji. Oni koji su dobri umiru mladi, ali ja sam bio pošte?en toga da se izgra?ujem da bih mogao završiti život dobar kao an?eo.

It's no small matter to become rich and famous by saying exactly what you think—to say it in your own words, without compromise.

Everybody wanted to be what he was to the limit.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness that characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

You can't argue with success. Sure you can, Dahl said, when it's based on stupidity.

Most important, understand that goals are for losers and systems are for winners.

Unhappiness that is caused by too much success is a high-class problem. That's the sort of unhappiness people work all of their lives to get. If you find yourself there, and I hope you do, you'll find your attention naturally turning outward. You'll seek happiness through service to others. I promise it will feel wonderful.

For our purposes, let's say a goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don't sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do something every day, it's a system. If you're waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it's a goal.

Success caused passion more than passion caused success.