Quotes About Achievement

Once you learn from your mistakes and you tighten up your hustle and you know your business, you get rich. That's basically true with anything.

in order to achieve success, pleasantness has to be the fundamental quality within you.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution that's hard. —Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon

lack of execution is: "The single biggest obstacle to success and the cause of most disappointments.

Think of it this way: it can take 15 years to become an overnight success!

How might I climb from the valley up over dripping boulders to tread the mountain clouds of that far peak?

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

An example from the monkey: The higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind.

Start by doing what's necessary then do what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

The practice of overcoming hope is recognizing our positive qualities. With excessive hope, we begin to belittle what we have achieved. We might then feel inadequate and have fear of not achieving more.

Happiness Begin with Success

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them, therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!

No se le permitió a nadie perderse el parestésico paréntesis de aquel histórico día en que los despiadados seres puros de la raza inhumana enviaban un hombre a la luna.

men sometimes mistrust women who are averse to claiming their achievements. They view such women as inauthentic, falsely humble, or lacking in commitment.

I tell them, say what you're doing, say what you've accomplished, and say what motivates you. If you want to make partner, you need to say so, over and over. If you don't, the top dogs won't view you as committed. Just working hard won't get you where you want to go.

Emblems fulfill a deep, instinctive need because they say something about us. Abraham Maslow calls this "esteem": the need to feel important, respected, and recognized as an achiever. We satisfy this need by communicating our value to the world around us.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

Maybe you've made something mediocre—there's plenty of that in any artist's cabinets—but something mediocre is better than nothing, and often the near-misses, as I call them, are the beckoning hands that bring you to perfection just around the blind corner.

Successful people create systems so that essential tasks always get done.

I did not come to NASA to make history.