Quotes About Achievement

I've been a winner my whole life.

I'm going to be climbing for my whole life.

Every kid wants to reach their goals in life and be the best. During my Bruce Lee phase, I wanted to be the best martial artist in the world.

It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.

If life was a piece of cake, it wouldn't be worth eating!

I've lived my life in a way that I feel would be an example to young women and I've always given my best in everything I've tried.

Its actually really important that you succeed at what youre succeeding at, but that isnt going to be the measure of your life.

I think that if you are going to be successful as a Christian in the arts, you have to be successful in your Christian life.

The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'

Having redefined "success" as the achievement of dramatic technological progress and in general the manipulation of nature to achieve human ends, they essentially won a game the Scholastics were not trying to play in the first place.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.

Life without work is unworthy of being lived.

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

They needed the numbers, so they directed their creativity and resourcefulness toward getting those numbers, rather than toward effective performance.

Work is not just about economic reward. It is also about purpose and self-respect.

Mastery means making progress at a task that matters to you and is challenging.

Happiness is not something that happens to people but something that they make happen." His research shows that people are happiest in a state he has named "flow." In a state of flow, you are one with what you are doing. Children know flow well. They call it play. Play is one of the childhood roots of adult happiness. But there are others—four others, to be exact—in the schema I outline in this book.

The great mathematician Alan Turing summed us up when he said, "Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine." That sums us up perfectly.

Barely, but I did. Then in college I did really well. Can you imagine that? Which is why I went to graduate school. But that was probably a big mistake. I should have quit while I was ahead. You see, my problem is I don't know whether I'm smart or if I'm stupid. I've done well, and I've done poorly, and I've been told that I'm gifted and I've been told that I'm slow. I don't know what I am.

Life is like reading a novel or running a marathon. It's not so much about reaching a goal but rather about the journey itself and the experiences along the way

that acknowledgment, applause, and honor are welcome and add zest to life but they are not ends to be pursued. I felt then, as I do now, that what matters is what you do and how you do it, the quality of the time you spend, and the people you share it with.

Success on Wall Street was getting the most money. Success for us was having the best life.