Quotes About Achievement

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

Reason --open-minded and self-critical-- remains the key to our species' tremendous success.

The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.

Hard work doesn't guarantee success, but improves its chances.

The creative person should have no other biography than his works.

In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.

Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.

We live in an aspiration-driven culture that is rooted in instant gratification. We find it difficult to enact or even accept incremental progress.

In contrast, you can't achieve an aspiration or outcome at any given moment. You cannot suddenly get better sleep. You cannot lose twelve pounds at dinner tonight. You can only achieve aspirations and outcomes over time if you execute the right specific behaviors.

You select one of your aspirations, then come up with a bunch of specific behaviors that can help you achieve your aspiration.

In contrast, you can't achieve an aspiration or outcome at any given moment.

We live in an aspiration-driven culture that is rooted in instant gratification.

Write your aspiration inside the cloudlike shape shown in the graphic. Then start filling in the boxes with specific behaviors.

In my research, I've found that adults have many ways to tell themselves, "I did a bad job," and very few ways of saying, "I did a good job." We rarely recognize our successes and feel good about what we've done.

Narrative drama comes from bold action, not from the incremental progress that leads to sustainable success.

Doing two push-ups against a wall is easy to accomplish so you're much more

You are doing something worthy of celebration This is the most important answer because recognizing that you are doing something worthy of celebration will change so much for you. Your ability to ignore self-criticism and embrace feeling good about your successes will ripple out into your life in positive ways that go far beyond the habits you create and celebrate.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

The errors of young men, are the ruin of business; but the errors of aged men, amount but to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

Death hath this also; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

The world began when I was born and the world is mine to win