Quotes About Achievement

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.

The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land at least we are able to follow. (July 20, 1969 CBS Moon Landing Coverage)" ? Walter Cronkite

The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land at least we are able to follow. (July 20, 1969 CBS Moon Landing Coverage)

No matter what...ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life was about anyway, being Superman and living like life itself was important. Basketball made my life important.

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.

Many persons wonder why they don't amount to more than they do, have good stuff in them, energetic, persevering, and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts.

It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.

Industry is a far better horse to ride a genius.

The Titanic woke them up. Never again would they be quite so sure of themselves. In technology especially, the disaster was a terrible blow. Here was the "unsinkable ship" -- perhaps man's greatest engineering achievement -- going down the first time it sailed. But it went beyond that. If this supreme achievement was so terribly fragile, what about everything else? If wealth mean so little on this cold April night, did it mean so much the rest of the year?

Auch er stieg funkelnd empor im größten und schrecklichsten Feuer, das Buchheim je heimgesucht hatte. Er, der Brandstifter und Zündfunke, flog hinauf, um dort oben ein Stern zu werden und für alle Zeit hinabzustrahlen auf eine Welt, die zu eng war für einen so großen Geist wie ihn.

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

Para que lo tengas en cuenta: los buenos profesionales no son necesariamente los que sobresalen cuantitativamente en las calificaciones, sino principalmente los que han obtenido

Algunos defienden una aceptación "condicional", cuyo principio afirma: "Debes ganarte el amor a ti mismo haciendo cosas extraordinarias" o "Tu autoestima depende de tus logros o éxitos". Esto es tan absurdo como decir, por ejemplo, que solamente querré y aceptaré a mis hijos si son buenos estudiantes o se portan bien.

La premisa es como sigue: cuanto más hagas del "ganar" un valor, paradójicamente, más destinado estarás a perder.

No debo permitirme ninguna falla, si quiero triunfar. El más mínimo error debe ser drásticamente sancionado y removido". Autocastigo en estado puro: no sólo te vuelves perfeccionista de tu propio ser, sino que te azotas

Lo bueno debe ser útil. Lo útil es bueno. El tipo A, congruente con su afán acaparador, hace de la obtención de logros su bandera de lucha. Por tal razón, abandonar los resultados es casi una blasfemia y un sinsentido ridículo, producto de un romanticismo ingenuo.

La felicidad no llega a la puerta, hay que buscarla y pelear por ella.

Si sólo te concentras en tus errores, no verás tus logros. Si sólo ves lo que te falta, no disfrutarás del momento, del aquí y el ahora. Rabindranath Tagore decía: "Si de noche lloras por el Sol, no verás las estrellas".

la vida nos enseña que la mayoría de nuestros logros perdurables han sido producto del trabajo y la entrega a un proyecto que consideramos vital (criar un hijo, estudiar en la universidad, desarrollar una destreza deportiva). ¿Disciplina? No cabe duda, pero también motivación. Sentir que el cambio es necesario

Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!

There were bickerings, outright fights, screaming tantrums, but Ted's vision of the Greater Denishawn had come true.

Nothing recedes like success.