Quotes About Achievement

While a history of success can certainly increase your confidence, you don't actually need that history to feel confident.

People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.

To do anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

To give anything less than your best is to give away the gift.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift.

American Recordings was not only a testament

In a similar way, the arts can act on God's side by preserving beauty and drawing out the highest achievements capable by humans. The arts can help preserve and renew cultures, and this is a good thing in itself.

The goal is just to finish.

One small failure or even large success does not define any of us.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone…I didn't ever want it to be an equation that amounted to a result coming from my brain plus something else.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before

The principal is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement about being better than you were the day before.

I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording 'Appetite For Destruction ' we all knew.

For example, the client who values education might be asked, "What if you received the education, but no one knew. Would that still be of importance?

In that Malazan Book of the Fallen, the historians will write of our suffering, and they will speak of it as the suffering of those who served the Crippled God. As something … fitting. And for our seeming fanaticism they will dismiss all that we were, and think only of what we achieved. Or failed to achieve. And in so doing, they will miss the whole fucking point.

The curse of climbing is discovering how great the distance yet to climb.

Victory is an illusion. In all things.

With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very qualities that purchased it.

I was in a special class, where you skip a grade - you go from seventh to ninth. But I got kicked out. You had to maintain an 85 average, and I didn't. I was too focused on trying to be popular.

Sometimes as players achieve more and more and get further down the line in their careers, they tend to skip over the work part.

I don't recommend skipping college, but things have worked out for me.