Quotes About Achievement

I have gotten closer to my dream life thanks

I have gotten closer to my dream life thanks to the

One summer I decided to read the twenty novels by Émile Zola in twenty days, one a day, and managed to do so at great expense.

The doer wins by doing, not convincing.

he had already been financially independent

My only measure of success is how much time you have to kill.

the talker versus the doer.

in Tony's case, free time was the result of productive insights.

Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them.

se você não assumir riscos, não há nada que possa fazer para tornar-se grande, nada.

Nykyaika: loimme nuoruuden ilman sankaruutta, iän ilman viisautta ja elämän ilman loistoa.

Other professions allow you to add zeroes to your output (and your income), if you do well, at little or no extra effort.

Only in recent history has working hard signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse, and, mostly, sprezzatura.

one needs a decent university "name" to get ahead in life;

Self-esteem is a particular way of experiencing the self. Its two components are self-efficacy and self-respect. Self-efficacy is the experience of competence in thinking, learning, making appropriate decisions, and responding effectively to the challenges of life. Self-respect is the experience of success, achievement, love, joy, fulfilment - in a word, happiness - are natural and appropriate to us.

What we make an effort to learn and what we achieve is based, at least in part, on what we think is possible and appropriate to us.

Success in life belongs to those who do.

Productiveness is the act of supporting our existence by translating our thought into reality, of setting our goals and working for their achievement, of bringing knowledge, goods, or services into existence.

Whether you achieve what you want in life matters. Whether you are happy matters. Honor and fight for your highest potential. Self-realization - the realization of the best within you - is the noblest goal of your existence.

If a self-concept cannot accommodate a given level of success, and if the self-concept does not change, it is predictable that the person will find ways to self-sabotage.

This earth is the distant star we must find a way to reach.

There's a lot of work, a lot of writing, to be done, and there's no telling when the results will begin to show. But if Atlas Shrugged sells 50,000 copies, this culture's cooked.

My happiness and self-realization are noble purposes.

Life, for a human being, is a constant process of thought, of motion, of purpose, of achievement; it is not the state of merely not being dead.