Quotes About Achievement

Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will--we all do. If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win.

Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door.

If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.

The daily mantra of these single-minded individuals – that 'the sea is there to be swum in, and must be conquered' – is one that is frequently adopted by any Brits on holiday in the UK. Well, for the first day of the holiday, anyway. C

You only have the right to pursue happiness; you have to catch it yourself.

You achieve because you're lucky to work with people who are very talented.

Shoot a lower score than everybody else

Up to a considerable point, as I see it, there's nothing difficult about golf, nothing. I see no reason, truly, why the average golfer, if he goes about it intelligently, shouldn't play in the 70s

Men die when they are finished living...

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. His cares must still be double to his joys, In any dignity.

Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

We have the scanners, we have MaherSter. Now, you stop poling your horses and pray for the wicked."

with is arms heavy-light from having just bench-press three hundred pounds...

By passing your GCSEs you prove that you're not an idiot… But by passing your A levels you prove that you're smart

a dream can be the highest point of a life

But he accomplished what he set out to do, multiplying the firm's profits many times over.

He saw the firm's success as a personal validation.

My gratitude was heartfelt. Our response to the crisis had been a team effort. But

the results are not impressive.

but Anna could see the benefits of her efforts much more concretely and immediately in the progress and joy of her students.

graduating two years ahead of me.

I knew this award-giving was premature. I hadn't been in the job long enough to point to any real accomplishments.