Quotes About Achievement

Of course, now I had to show I was worthy, but I didn't feel at all concerned. I would do whatever it took to get there. I didn't share my feelings of pride with anybody. My style was to keep moving and not reflect too much. But it felt great.

I wasn't there to compete. I was there to win.

And when you visualize something very clearly, you believe that you 100 percent can get there.

It might seem like I was handcuffing myself by setting such specific goals, but it was actually just the opposite: I found it liberating. Knowing exactly where I wanted to end up freed me totally to improvise how to get there.

It's human nature to work on the things that we are good at. If you have big biceps, you want to do an endless number of curls because it's so satisfying to see this major bicep flex. To be successful, however, you must be brutal with yourself and focus on the flaws.

Though you may not realize it now, you'll eventually recognize it when you take the same disciplined approach in tackling a particular challenge.

have never seen a case in which an individual made progress in bodybuilding without experiencing an accompanying boost in self-esteem, self-confidence, and enjoyment of life.

While the difficult takes time, the impossible just takes a little longer.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

Do a little more than you're paid to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family & friends.

No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

All you can do is all you can do. But all you can do is enough

You can be the most common person in the world and still do something uncommon with your life.

Art Williams

I do not think of myself as having arrived at any degree of achievement commensurate with my potential talent and capacity for work. I am just one among the many who have tried to approximate some measure of integrity in a world that is a sorry bewilderment of wretchedness and affluence.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had?

What I found was a hidden source of anguish that wasn't just widespread but nearly universal among people who have done well in their careers. I came to call this the "striver's curse": people who strive to be excellent at what they do often wind up finding their inevitable decline terrifying, their successes increasingly unsatisfying, and their relationships lacking.

More important, her curated self was a person she would admire—a hugely successful, hardworking executive. And she succeeded! But nothing is permanent, and now she felt like every hour of work was giving her less than the last, and not just less happiness—less power and prestige, too. Her problem was that the "special one" she had created was less than a full person. She had traded herself for a symbol of herself, you might say.

My financier friend had objectified herself to be special, with a self-definition that revolved around work, achievement, worldly rewards, and pride. Even though that object was slowly eroding, she was too attached to her worldly success to make the changes that could now bring her happiness.

Do you quantify your own success in terms of money, power, or prestige?

Unhappy is he who depends on success to be happy," wrote Alex Dias Ribeiro, a former famous Formula 1 race car driver. "For such a person, the end of a successful career is the end of the line. His destiny is to die of bitterness or to search for more success in other careers and to go on living from success to success until he falls dead. In this case, there will not be life after success."[12] Making