Quotes About Achievement

the gap between promises and results," which it claims is itself a result of "the gap between what a company's leaders want to achieve and the ability of their organization to achieve it"; that is, the alignment gap – getting the organization to do what its leaders want.35

Each of us must find the form that allows this naming, this working through, and, finally, this mastery. We may find these forms in sports, in the arts, in finance, in academia, in relationship building, in child-rearing—or, indeed, in stamp collecting. But find them we must.

The better the school library, the higher the reading scores.

There is no life which does not possess its own importance, no life which may not be touched by greatness at any time -- Yes, be touched by greatness and have a hand in it. (from The Mirror of Her Dreams)

I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.

All good poems are victories over something.

plan your work and work your plan" "where there is a will, there is a way

In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.

Some games, you are Reggie Miller. And, if you're really good, you're maybe even Cheryl.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Haber institucionalizado la confianza en el poder de la razón es el logro más sobresaliente de la Ilustración.

I love it when a plan comes together! - Hannibal Smith, A-Team

I must not take joy from status or power, but from my accomplishments, and the way I chose to accomplish them.

If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

My parents, like so many others in the darker nation, shared the family stories of achievement but omitted the details of racial slights and discrimination, as if the telling were subject to what the historian Jonathan Holloway describes as a "psychologically enduring editor's pencil." So for me, writing this book has been a journey of discovery

Surely if we all try hard, we can all lift ourselves up high above the average. It looks a little difficult mathematically, but that's nothing.

There are no moral shortcuts in the game of business—or life. There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

i hope i sell some books soonest

The dead are so long dead," explained Merlin. "Better to have lived while alive, yes? Besides, if they achieve this, they will have conquered a giant; they will be invincible!

It does not matter where one starts; it is where one finishes that makes all the difference.

talent without discipline is only an empty promise—the glitter of an unworked crystal. It is nothing of itself.

Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.