Quotes About Achievement

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. —Jonathan Kozol

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.

You can't win at the highest levels of life by avoiding things you don't like.

Won't get done by looking at it!

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You won the Nobel Peace Prize," he said. "Are you kidding me?" "I promise you, sir, that I wouldn't wake you up to play a joke," Gibbs replied. "You've won the Nobel Peace Prize." "Gee," Obama said, absorbing the unlikely news. "All I want to do is pass health care.

There are people that who want to be someone and there are people that want to do something.

His book was a bestseller, and by the end of the year, he had signed a lucrative deal to write three more.

Life is a competition... Not with others, but with ourselves. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives. Each to master some weakness of yesterday. Each day to repair a mistake; Each day to surpass ourselves.

In fact, studies show that less than 1 percent of Americans write down specific goals for themselves each year. That's a shame, because writing down your goals is powerful.

Specificity transforms a vague dream into a concrete, achievable goals. If you can practically see, hear, feel, and smell a goal, the chances are excellent that you'll not only know what's required to make t real, you'll actually do what's required to make it real.

HENRY JAMES once proposed three questions you could productively put to an artist's work. The first two were disarmingly straightforward: What was the artist trying to achieve? Did he/she succeed? The third's a zinger: Was it worth doing?

As a footballer you always want to test yourself against the best.

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fames proud temple shines afar?

I don't stop when I am tired, I stop when I am done

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a plain son of the people unaided by any gifts of fortune.

In 1948, at age seventy-six, Orville Wright died after two heart attacks.

You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit. —HARRY S. TRUMAN1

trabaje con ençtusiasmo en la consecución de objetivos en pro del bien común.