Quotes About Achievement

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.

Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.

Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.

High-functioning teams are gold and the true key to success.

When put on the spot, most people won't say much about this, but there are usually a few things that everyone would like to do in the next five years: get promoted, learn something new, launch something important, and work with smart people.

Given special powers, anyone can do anything. It takes away all the merit of achievement. It's like King Arthur's magic sword. As long as he wielded it, no one could defeat him. Well, that means that the virtue was in the sword, not in him. Even I could be a great knight with a sword like that. I'd be much more impressed by Arthur if he'd fought his battles with an ordinary sword, and still won them.

It takes less time for them to conquer the world than it takes for me to brush my teeth. That's pretty disappointing." Jesse from ALIEN INVASION & OTHER INCONVENIENCES.

It takes less time for them to conquer the world than it takes for me to brush my teeth. That's pretty disappointing.

Why wasn't it more difficult? ... Shouldn't some things be difficult?

he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing — or maybe greatness is the thing we want to have so that other people will want to have us, or maybe greatness is merely the grail for our unhappy, striving selves, the thing we think we need, but don't and can't get anyway.

Peter wore a grin from ear to ear. "You did great!

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.