Quotes About Achievement

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

The life does not have meaning when we do not have goals.

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

Everything you want right now, everything you want so passionately and think you'll never get--you will get it someday." I accidentally met her eyes, and it felt like she was talking to me. "Yes, you will get get it," she said, looking right at me, "but by that time, you won't want it anymore. That's how it happens.

You have a lot of time, you don't need to be in a hurry." That's what the deans said, when you tried to take five classes. Easy for them: they were already deans. Either that was something they wanted to be doing, in which case they could afford to relax; or it wasn't what they had wanted to be doing, and now they were invested in preventing anyone else from accomplishing anything, either.

The teacher was still alive, so he sought her out and asked the old but still alert lady what magic formula she had used to pull these boys out of the slums into successful achievement. The teacher's eyes sparkled and her lips broke into a gentle smile. "It's really very simple," she said. "I loved those boys.

Words are a means to an end. Those who chase after them inevitably fail to reach that end.

Life, especially in relation to other women, would always be a competition, one she would rarely win.

a man is but a mere piece of meat marinated by the juices of his successes

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.

To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful" ~ Carl Gustav Jung (1987-1961) as cited in Anthony Stevens

they are often milestones on the journey toward