Quotes About Achievement

There's nothing like a rich man's son who's done a little starving, just enough to scare him into becoming a self-made man.

Similarly, the buy-and-hold investor who prudently holds a diversified portfolio of low-cost index funds through thick and thin is the investor most likely to achieve her long-term investment goals.

The secret to success and enjoyment in so many parts of life is to know your capabilities and stay within them. Similarly, the key to success in investing is to know yourself and invest within your investing capabilities and within your emotional capacities.

How will you know when you reach a higher level of prayer? One way is to see an increase in concrete, measurable answers to your prayers.

What was distinctive in those emancipated women—and here loom my later problems with second-wave feminism—was that they never indulged in reflex male-bashing: they accepted and admired the enormity of what men had accomplished and were simply demanding a fair chance to prove that women could match or surpass it.

It's always the people who don't want things who get them.

I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.

It was important to remember who you were and where you came from, no matter how successful you became.

Lots of famous people are late bloomers. My father says it's an advantage to be a late bloomer. Because when good things start happening, you're ready for it.

I said, 'Never. Because I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.' That shut her up for a minute. Then she asked where I went to college.

I feel sick. It's one thing to write for the school newspaper. But New York is on a whole different level. It's a mountain, with a few successful people like Bernard at the top, and a mad of dreamers and strivers like me at the bottom. And then there are people like Viktor, who aren't afraid to tell you that you've never going to reach that peak.

But that was the problem with New York: No matter how succesful you thought you were, there was always someone who was richer, more successful, more famous.. The idea of it was sometimes enough to make you want to give up.

Anyone can win if they know what they want and they focus on it. And if they're willing to make sacrifices. I always tell my clients there are no free shoes.

What is it you want from me Dad? You want me to be the big basketball star you never were?-Scott

Congratulations. A new low.

And now it is as we wanted it.

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

I wonder how many potential Einsteins have been permanently discouraged through competitive examinations and the forced feeding of curricula.

I Ã¢â'¬Â¦ had ambition not only to go farther than anyone had done before," wrote Captain James Cook, the eighteenth-century explorer of the Pacific, "but as far as it was possible for man to go.

Our particular causality scheme has brought us to a modest and rudimentary, although in many respects heroic, series of explorations. But it is far inferior to what might have been, and may one day be.

Nevertheless his prodigious intellectual powers persisted unabated. In 1696, the Swiss mathematician Johann Bernoulli challenged his colleagues to solve an unresolved issue called the brachistochrone problem, specifying the curve connecting two points displaced from each other laterally, along which a body, acted upon only by gravity, would fall in the shortest time.

They will manage to cross the ocean of becoming.

She found what she had been searching for.