Quotes About Achievement

Uno vence raras veces, pero alguna vez vence.

Orang yang berakal sehat tak pernah berbangga dengan bakatnya. Miss Maudie

Everybody did; most of the first grade had failed it last year.

Hard work is what magic aspires to be," she answered, her hand resting on the pickup's open driver door. "Hard work is the strongest magic there is.

Hard work applied properly and intelligently, and thinking in an organized manner, must lead to success.

It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.

From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them. I'm generalizing, of course.

Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.

I just put my heart into it. That's the difference. It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something, you can do it, up to a point. If you really work at being happy, you can do it, up to a point...Anything more than that is luck.

True, luck may rule over parts of a person's life and luck may cast patches of shadow across the ground of our being, but where there's a WILL-- much less a strong will to swim thirty laps or run twenty kilometers -- there's a way to overcome most any trouble with whatever stepladders you have around.

I'm not totally uncompetitive. It's just that for some reason I never cared all that much whether I beat others or lost to them. This sentiment remained pretty much unchanged after I grew up. It doesn't matter what field you're talking about -- beating somebody else just doesn't do it for me. I'm much more interested in whether I reach the goals that I set for myself, so in this sense long-distance running is the perfect fit for a mindset like mine.

Life just isn't fair, is how it used to strike me. Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for, while others can get it without any effort at all.

I'm going to swim 0.93 miles, ride a bike 24.8 miles, then run a final 6.2 miles. And what's all that supposed to prove? How is this any different from pouring water in an old pan with a tiny hole in the bottom?

El talento es como un recipiente. La capacidad del recipiente no cambia por mucho que uno se esfuerce. Y cuando el agua llega al borde, rebosa.

There's nothing worth getting in this world that you can get easily. ...But, when you put in that much time and effort, if you do achieve that difficult thing it becomes the cream of your life.

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

Nobody ever recommended or even desired that I be a novelist - in fact, some tried to stop me. I had the idea to be one, and that's what I did.

Harvard Business School Press

Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success. Originally

You get results by exploiting opportunities, not solving problems.

Executives trying to recognize high levels of achievement motivation in their people can look for one last piece of evidence: commitment to the organization. When people love their jobs for the work itself, they often feel committed to the organizations that make that work possible. Committed employees are likely to stay with an organization even when they are pursued by headhunters waving money.

Whether they learn it from their family, school, or athletics, many people establish an identity by comparing themselves with others. When they see others gain power, information, money, or recognition, for instance, they experience what the psychologist Abraham Maslow called "a feeling of deficiency"—a sense that something is being taken from them. That makes it hard for them to be genuinely happy about the success of others—even of their loved ones.

You're scared because you expect a lot from yourself and you're afraid you'll underperform.

Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.