Quotes About Achievement

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, Who has?

Some men were born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. Major Major was all three.

Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

À semelhança das medalhas olímpicas e troféus de ténis, significavam apenas que o possuidor fizera algo sem vantagem para ninguém mais eficientemente que qualquer outra pessoa.

kid I wanted apple cheeks someday, and I decided to work at it until I got them, and by God, I did work at it until I got them, and that's how I did it, with crab apples in my cheeks

Come le medaglie olimpiche e le coppe di tennis, significavano solo che il loro possessore aveva fatto più brillantemente di chiunque altro qualcosa che non serviva a nessuno.

Gold was not sure of many things,but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew,he could name at least two of greater ability,better character, and higher intelligence who, by comparison, had failed

the land of opportunity, where credentials mattered less than demonstrated ability.

Success means successful living. When you are peaceful, happy, joyous, and doing what you love to do, you are successful.

By day and by night, I am becoming prosperous in all of my interests.

Remember that the idea of success contains all the essential elements of success. As a man repeats the word success to himself with faith and conviction, his subconscious mind will accept it as true of himself, and he will be under subjective compulsion to succeed.

The first step toward your goal is the birth of the idea in the mind, and the second step is the manifestation of the idea. He began to imagine that he was in his own store. He participated in the act mentally. He arranged the bottles, dispensed prescriptions, and imagined several clerks in the store waiting on customers. He visualized a big bank balance.

The first step toward your goal is the birth of the idea in the mind. The second step is the manifestation of the idea.

You can become skilled in the operation of your subconscious mind. You can practice its powers with a certainty of results in exact proportion to your knowledge of its principles and to your application of them for definite specific purposes and goals you wish to achieve.

Having seen the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.

Judy was cruel. She had that smart cruelty to her of someone who'd gotten what she wanted. And she'd gotten it the fairest way, through suffering.

As Frederick Douglass said, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.

It was hard not to exude the air of a martyr, if one did just slightly more than the other, as it seemed Mickey frequently did.

The secret is to scale one's ambitions precisely to fit one's talent, Mr Lesnovich told Enid. His manner as always was grave, vaguely censorious. That is the key to happiness.

perfection of the life or of the work

Nothing is more lonely than fucking 'good works.

I still remember typing the title page on my manual Smith-Corona with clammy hands and a racing heart. When I came to the words, A novel by Joyce Elbert, I heard the New York Philharmonic break into Wagnerian praise for a major new literary voice, yet seconds later doubt and insecurity had crept in.

While it took much longer than I ever anticipated to see my writing efforts pay off, it finally happened so that at the age of forty-three I was my own woman, beholden to no one.