Quotes About Achievement

take what you can from your dreams Make them real as anything It takes the work out of the courage

strange evolution, that people have come to believe that we are its greatest achievement when really we're just a collection of cells overrating themselves

One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.

I finally realized that results are generated by activities. If I manage my activities then the results I want occur.

15 percent of success could be attributed to training and education, while 85 percent was attributed to attitude, perseverance, diligence, and vision.

There is tremendous satisfaction in working your tail off to hit a goal, then winning. It is worth the work.

If you will do the things others won't do then some day you will have the life others won't have.

I learned early on that work creates discipline, and when you have discipline in your life, you are a healthier person.

Goals convert vision into energy. When you lay out exactly what you want to do in detail, you immediately start feeling the room move and the earth shake. You are pulled into your new life like some scene from a movie. Goals help make great men. J. C. Penney once said, "Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal and I will give you a stock clerk.

This is a book about winning

Goals Must Have a Time Limit Goals without a time limit are unable to be broken down into micro goals to measure your progress, to observe your traction. You might say, "I want to write a book." Great, when? In twenty years? In twenty months? If you don't put a deadline on the goal it will never happen and you will get to eat the bitter fruit of regret.

When leadership sets the goals by themselves they are not goals, they are quotas. And no one likes quotas.

Dreaming also has a negative connotation as well. Some people dream and stop there. They never do anything about making their dreams come true.

Instead, the top five jobs of Everyday Millionaires came out like this: Engineer Accountant Teacher Management Attorney It's interesting to note that medical doctors did not make the top five and neither did banker.

Traction equals satisfaction

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In studying successful people, the author discovered that 15 percent of success could be attributed to training and education, while 85 percent was attributed to attitude, perseverance, diligence, and vision.

The enemy of "the best" is not "the worst." The enemy of "the best" is "just fine.

The weird thing is that the more efficient, on task, on goal you are with your time, the more energy you have. Working with no traction, or for that matter simply wasting a day, does not relax you, it drains you.// Strange as it may seem, when you work a daily plan in pursuit of your written goals that flow from your mission statement born of your vision for living your dreams, you are energized after a tough long day.

D AVE STONE is a notorious and unconscionably indolent slug-a-bed with little or no achievement of merit to his name.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

David A. Adler

It's only hard until it becomes easy.

In fact, the reality of life is such that you never do get to the top. The climb is the goal. The top of the mountain is only the direction, not the destination