Quotes About Achievement

there are clear distinctions between what it takes to be decent, what it takes to be good, what it takes to be great, and what it takes to be among the best. If your goal is to be mediocre, then you have a considerable margin for error. You can get depressed when fired and mope around waiting for someone to call with a new job offer. If you hurt your toe, you can take six weeks watching television and eating potato chips.

The large factory became an incandescent symbol of human ambition and achievement, but also of suffering. Time and again, it served as a measuring rod for attitudes toward work, consumption, and power, a physical embodiment of dreams and nightmares about the future.

What Chinese parents understand," Chua wrote, "is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. To get good at anything you have to work, and children on their own never want to work, which is why it is crucial to override their preferences. This often requires fortitude on the part of the parents because the child will resist; things are always hardest at the beginning, which is where Western parents tend to give up.

The Pottery Barn and Rubber Soul had gotten old, but my ability to order more than the chicken fingers with honey mustard from T.G.I. Friday's would always provide me with a sense of accomplishment.

Probably. Parents are engineered to be proud.

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

Winged Victory

Were all gentlemen so competitive that they wanted to win, regardless of the prize?

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.

Happiness is making your dreams come true.

Shooting felt good. Joy consists in this, after all, the increase of one's power.

And if, with some effort, they could recall the affairs that had been consummated, the roads taken, the languages mastered, the queer meals eaten in foreign lands, of what lasting consequence was that? This had been the destination all the while. Having been a good householder, having run a tight ship, having fought the good fight, whatever, it mattered not at all.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.

How many geniuses die undiscovered, not only by others but, more sadly, by themselves?

Trabajar es crear, producir, multiplicarse en las obras de su hechura: nada puede haber más plácido y lisonjero para

también los idealistas aciertan de vez en cuando.

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