Quotes About Achievement

El hombre con voluntad llega en la vida más lejos que el inteligente

Alguien con voluntad, si persevera, puede conseguir que sus sueños se hagan realidad.

Una persona con voluntad llega en la vida más lejos que una persona inteligente

Ni el orden, ni la constancia, ni la voluntad son disposiciones innatas, sino adquiridas en la pelea diaria, y deben lograrse mediante esfuerzos expresos, concretos, claros, bien delimitados

Lo penoso del éxito es que siempre se le quita a otro. Sólo pueden gozar de él los inconscientes, las mentes obtusas que no entienden que entre los frustrados siempre hay seres superiores a ellos.

Fame and success are very different things.

If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

a sow bug crawls across a desk. If he is turned over on his back, one can observe the tremenous struggle he goes through to get on his feet again. During this interval he has 'purpose' in his life. When he succeeds, one can almost see the look of victory in his eyes. [...] And yet mixed with his smugness is a little disappointment. Now that he has come out on top, life seems aimless.

Because 'achievers' have to be 'good,' they tend to keep their feelings under careful control, and they often suffer from ulcers or high blood pressure.

Modest, conventional expectations weren't enough to lure Adam Brown away from the power of drug addiction that ensnared him. Instead, the college dropout already in his mid-twenties found only the big, near-impossible dream of being a Navy SEAL captivating enough to consistently draw him to different choices.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible

en términos de lo que puedes ser. Mira en derredor. ¿Ha logrado algún otro lo que tú deseas? Entonces

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

For me, going on after Delaney & Bonnie was really, really tough because I thought they were miles better than us. Their

The only prewritten songs I had ready were "Circus" and "My Father's Eyes," neither of which seemed to have found their right incarnation yet. For almost a year we worked day and night, sometimes just perfecting little guitar motifs, or honing and reshaping tracks with the Pro Tools system that Simon is a master of. The result was one of my favorite albums; I poured my soul into this one, and I believe you can hear that.

I had no idea how to do that, because I was either above or below everybody. I was either towering above as Clapton the guitar virtuoso, or cringing on the floor, because if you took away my guitar and my musical career, then I was nothing.

You're going to work in this life, and you're going to play. And when the last days come, you'll look back and find that that's all there was, an endless stream of days going back to today. But if you can find the thing you should be doing, the thing that makes you you, and if you can make that thing yours, then you've beaten the game. Most men don't, but the point is to try

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.