Quotes About Achievement

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there's no limit to what you can achieve.

If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. It sounds trivial and obvious, but if you unpack the idea it has extraordinary power.

The absence of a grand schedule removed the constant fear of falling behind that many projects create and replaced it with small but frequent payoffs that we were making things better.

Artists are often victims in a way of their own perceived quality gaps. They struggle to match the ideas in their minds to what they can manifest in the world.

It should never be a surprise that progress seems to slow as the finish line approaches, even if everyone is working just as hard as they were before.

I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.

I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.

Too often I see performances that aren't rooted in truth. Oftentimes, those are performances that tend to win awards.

The key to success as an entrepreneur is finding an opportunity, and when you find it, executing like crazy.

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.

What's the point of doing anything if it's easy? It's so much more valuable when a challenge has to be overcome.

This is the power of finishing first. This is the power of showing up, leveraging your strengths and weaknesses, and outworking everyone. My world would never be the same.

If you finish first, your friends may become jealous, your family might think you've gotten too big for your britches, and your competition might put a target on your back. So it's better to not compete. Better, that is, for your friends, your family, and your competition. But it's not better for you. Donald Miller

We're all dealt a different hand in this life. I don't know what hand you were dealt. But I know that the only thing we can do with our hand is play it—no bluffing. You can make the choice. You can either waste the opportunities you've been given, waste away in your regrets and failures, waste your gift, waste your time and energy and effort, and wait for your participation ribbon. Or you can choose to finish first. Which will you choose?

The greatest indicator of success is longevity, and longevity is only achieved by taking small, meaningful, consistent steps in the same direction.

Not only should we expect lots and lots of failure, but we should also be grateful when it shows up because it means we are on the right track. Failure is a mile marker on the pathway to finishing first.

Victories build on each other. Have you stopped to ask yourself what would make today a win for you? You don't need to hit all of your goals today. You may only need to accomplish one small goal—and that can be the victory you stand on tomorrow to accomplish your next small goal. Small victories empower us for bigger victories.

Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common.

As of 2015, the Guinness World Record for long distance archery is held by Matt Stutzman, a Paralympic, armless archer.

Heather Graham was raising children while making the time to write what has now become 100 novels.

Glory and honor were found as much in defeat as in victory.

You've learned that pride if often the first victim of ambition

At any stage of the game — regardless of your educational level, upbringing or age — you can decide to leapfrog the pettiness of people to achieve your goals. When you make a commitment and have the courage to stick with it through thick and thin, you'll double your income — and more.