Quotes About Achievement

If you want something bad enough, never give up (and take a boost when offered). Brick walls are there for a reason. And once you get over them—even if someone has practically had to throw you over—it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.

Becoming an Eagle Scout is just about the only thing you can put on your resume at age fifty that you did at age fourteen—and it still impresses. (Despite

brick walls are there for a reason. They're not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.

Andy, I just gave my students a two-week assignment and they came back and did stuff that, had I given them an entire semester to complete it, I would have given them all A's. What do I do?" Andy thought for a minute and said: "OK. Here's what you do. Go back into class tomorrow, look them in the eyes and say, 'Guys, that was pretty good, but I know you can do better.

Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster.

The brick walls are there for a reason. They're not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.

About The Last Lecture) It's not about how to achieve your dreams. It's about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you.

It was a hot summer night, and I had the soundtrack to Disney's The Lion King blasting on my stereo. Tears actually began streaming down my face as I drove past the building. Here I was, the grown-up version of that wide-eyed eight-year-old at Disneyland. I had finally arrived. I was an Imagineer.

Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.

I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough.

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want something.

It is not about achieving your dreams, but living your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you.

it's not about how to achieve your dreams. it's about how to lead your life. if you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. the dreams will come to you.

having a varied, evolving setting (even though it only evolves in that "middle layer" of NPCs/creatures/economy) encourages roleplay, encourages exploration, encourages alternate styles of achievement

All of these things make us feel good when we're successful at them, but lumping them all together as "fun" just renders the word meaningless.

One of the releases of chemicals triggering good feelings is at that moment of triumph when we learn something or master a task.

Happy person is one who knows how to bridge the gap between dreams and reality.

Life offers very few short cuts. The rest is hard work.

Curiosity is an engine of success.

The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.

My past experiences have proven to me that there are people who don't want you to know that they do not know. So they hide it through distraction in the form of criticizing other individuals. There are people who hold ill will toward others who have done the work and achieved the things that they have not, dreamers who never put forth the effort required to attain them in their own lives. My book is not for them. It's for you who realize that the thorns are worth the attainment of the rose. The

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

I never wanted to be famous; I only wanted to be great.

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.