Quotes About Achievement

So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people with the same skills never made it to the program. So keep trying.

I didn't play my best but I won. He was a lucky loser but I think he went out of luck today.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

Superiority to fate is difficult to gain 'tis not conferred of any but possible to earn.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

organize your knowledge so that you can turn your plans into power.

Barnes succeeded because he chose a definite goal, placed all his energy, all his will power, all his effort, everything, back of that goal.

Una de las mayores debilidades de la humanidad es la familiaridad del hombre promedio con la palabra "imposible".

The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way  of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average person's familiarity with the word 'impossible'. He knows all the rules that will not work. He knows all the things that cannot be done. This book was written for those who seek the rules that have made others successful, and are willing to stake everything on those rules.

Select your goal and make good, deep, wide mental paths leading straight to it.

The men of greatest achievement are men with highly developed sex natures; men who have learned the art of sex transmutation.

The five fundamental steps that must be taken by all who succeed are: Choice of a definite goal to be attained Development of sufficient power to attain your goal Perfection of a practical plan for attaining your goal Accumulation of specialized knowledge necessary for the attainment of your goal Persistence in carrying out the plan

the crucial role the mind plays in personal growth and achievement

If you were in a building that was on fire, and all the doors and windows were locked, chances are that you would develop sufficient strength with which to break down the average door, because of your intense desire to free yourself. If you desire to acquire the art of successful negotiation, as you undoubtedly will when you understand its significance in relation to your achievement of your definite chief aim, you will do so, providing your desire is intense enough.

Whatever we want in our outward life in material expression, we must first build into our mental life, into our Ideals, Purposes and Will.

the habit of planting in the mind a definite aim, objective, or purpose, and visualizing that objective until ways and means for its realization have been created.

Emphasis of title.

SUCCESS REQUIRES NO EXPLANATIONS FAILURE PERMITS NO ALIBIS

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

Transformation of the intangible impulse, of DESIRE, into the tangible reality, of MONEY, calls for the use of a plan, or plans.

The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.