Quotes About Achievement

There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what s/he is told to do. And the other is the person who does no more than s/he is told to do. - Andrew Carnegie

Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be extraordinary.

position never determines performance, ultimately performance determines position in life.

Make each day your masterpiece. —JOSHUA WOODEN, father of John Wooden

Leadership is the ability to help people and organizations surpass themselves.

The Nobel Institute had nothing to say about him, other than that he had never won a Nobel Prize.

But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem like tiny dots in a mosaic, but each had a separate narrative starting a few months or a lifetime earlier and finishing that day in the New York City Marathon, the race with 37,000 stories.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

Thomas Mann was a prodigy of production. Working full time, he wrote a page a day. That is 365 pages a year, for he did write every day—a good-sized book a year. At a page a day, he was one of the most prolific literary writers who ever lived.

But I have discovered something about modest people. They're just waiting for the call. Then they are the first over the wall and into the temple.

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.

Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.

history, as they say, will always be written by the victors.

You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.

That was everything. I'd done the lot now. And me still only fifteen.

I wanted to be the best at whatever it was that was in front of me.

An exceedingly well-informed report,' said the General. 'You have given yourself the trouble to go into matters thoroughly, I see. That is one of the secrets of success in life.

That was a good straightforward point of view, no pretence that games were anything but an outlet for power and aggression; no stuff about their being enjoyable as such. You played a game to demonstrate that you did it better than someone else. If it came to that, I thought how few people do anything for its own sake, from making love to practising the arts.

The education of the will is the end of human life.

I had never previously met him, but I had seen him and knew his name well, because he was one of those persons who, from their earliest years, are marked down to do great things; and who so often remain a legend at school, or university, for a period of time after leaving the one or the other: sometimes long after any hope remains, among the world at large, that promise of earlier years will be fulfilled.

There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome... If you can handle rejection, you'll learn to get everything you want.

Goals are like magnets. They'll attract the things that make them come true.