Quotes About Achievement

Great success often depends upon being able to distinguish between the impossible and the improbable.

On the three-hundredth anniversary of my birth, I finally managed to conquer the world.

That," Cobb said, "was somehow the most embarrassing and inspiring display I've ever seen out of cadets! You should be ashamed. And proud.

Good lad. You did well, Spook. I'm proud.

You see," she said, "with the axe, it's easier to get ahead. . . .

Some of you have been waiting for years to read this, the final volume of my autobiography.

Destroying the world. That's no mean feat, if you think about it. I wonder if we should be impressed with ourselves.

Oh," Obliteration continued, "I think that you'll find a man can do many things thought impossible, if he tries hard enough.

Maybe you saw me there when you glanced at the rest of the room, to see what people look like when they actually have to work to get things." He drew his lips to a line. It seemed I'd touched a nerve. Excellent. First blood.

Vin was coming to realize that her old goal in life - simply staying alive - was uninspired. There was so much more she could be doing.

no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it.

Dalinar said. "You've grown, soldier. Few men have the wisdom to realize when they need help. Fewer still have the strength to go get it. Well done. Very well done.

But we don't. Given two works of artistic majesty, otherwise weighted equally, we will give greater acclaim to the one who did it first. It doesn't matter what you create. It matters what you create before anyone else.

And...how much are we getting paid for achieving the impossible?

Great success often depends on being able to distinguish between the impossible and the improbable.

una persona es más que sus experiencias, apiladas como piedras. Pero nuestros mejores momentos son la base en que nos apoyamos para tratar de alcanzar el cielo.

You did well. My boy...you did so well.

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving for excellence. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth. Perfectionism is a defensive move. It's the belief that if we do things perfectly and look perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgment, and shame.

Just because we didn't measure up to some standard of achievement doesn't mean that we don't possess gifts and talents that only we can bring to the world. Just because someone failed to see the value in what we can create or achieve doesn't change its worth or ours.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again…who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

Perfectionism is not abut healthy achievement and growth. Perfectionism is the belief that if we live perfect, look perfect, and act perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgement, and shame. It's a shield.

Perfectionism is not self-improvement. Perfectionism is, at its core, about trying to earn approval and acceptance. Most perfectionists were raised being praised for achievement and performance (grades, manners, rule-following, people-pleasing, appearance, sports). Somewhere along the way, we adopt this dangerous and debilitating belief system: I am what I accomplish and how well I accomplish it.