Quotes About Achievement

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down—not because you're drunk and not near stairs. But it's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men." "In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury." "The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing." "The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags." ...

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

No matter how proficient we are at what we do, most of us are able to find a way to draw comparisons with some ideal or existing yardstick that keeps us from recognizing the value of what we are doing.

when the accomplishments of others seem attainable, they will inspire us; when they seem unattainable, they may be undermining.1

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.

Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.

Hi Sandy, I won!

TURTLE SPENT THE night at the bedside of eighty-five-year-old Julian R. Eastman. T. R. Wexler had a master's degree in business administration, an advanced degree in corporate law, and had served two years as legal counsel to the Westing Paper Products Corporation. She had made one million dollars in the stock market, lost it all, then made five million more.

In one brief swoop through space from grass-grown clifftop to gray rock in blackened water she achieved the significance that passes for immortality in the modern world of news.

I was the first person to go to university from my family.

Although this is a reasonable use for massage, people with an achieving rigid structure must, because of their pattern, see it as the only reason. Ironically, this particular structure of rigidity rejects any good feeling or pleasure that does not come from their own actions

Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.

Genuine success is not in all you've been able to achieve or acquire. It's the sum total of all the positive things you've accomplished in a lifetime.

Success will always find you if you're able to identify your true talent or gift. Simply search inwards for that which you're positively passionate about.

The goal of any discipline is freedom. If the result is not greater freedom, something is wrong. (Chapter 1)

I may not have been the first to wish to marry her, but I am the one who succeeded.

The pat on the back becomes more important than the music or the skating. One part of us becomes ever more committed to earning the pat on the back, while another subversive part—that we try to ignore—kicks and screams and resists the teacher's authority. This is the part that gives us all kinds of excuses for not practicing.

The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

But the fact that he never expressed it instilled in me a desire to show him that I'd made the right decision. It made me driven. I thought the more successful I got, the more it proved him wrong, whether he acknowledged it or not. Even today, I still sometimes think that I'm trying to show my father what I'm made of, and he's been dead since 1991.

Lo que yo desearía en la vida es saber nadar por la superficie.

For the first time in his life Matt was glad he had done his homework. If he hadn't done that history report, he probably wouldn't even know where he was right now.

Do something worth remembering.