Quotes About Achievement

The only reason I enter an event is to win. It's not to make the cut or finish top 10 or even second. It's to win the event.

Bess who has been fingering a fruit-lid jar lid — absently, heedlessly dropped it — aimlessly groping across the table, reclaims it again. Lightning in her brain. She releases, grabs, releases, grabs. I can do. Bang! I did that. I can do. I! ... Centuries of human drive work in her; human ecstasy of achievement. satisfaction deep and fundamental as sex: I can do, I use my powers; I! I!

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. REINHOLD NIEBUHR

To cheer myself up, I try to remember the difference between short-term and long-term success. Living a good life and making a real mark on society is a marathon, not a sprint.

When the best leader leads, the people say "We did it ourselves." —Lao-tzu

After Caracas I no longer had a piano teacher, but I played for several hours every day and became pretty good; the first sonata by the Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera was a favorite, for it looks and sounds much harder than it is and is so dissonant that only a trained listener is able to discern any mistakes.

twenty, thirty paces without stopping or turning — that was

For the first time in my life I know what I want and I have what it takes to get me there. If you never experienced that I feel sorry for you. But it wasn't always like this. I have been through fire to get here. I seen things and done things and had shit done to me you couldn't barely credit. So be happy for me. And for fucksake don't get in my way.

Happiness is not our goal. The achievement of happiness deflects us from our true destiny which is the utter realization of self.

What about you, Commander? Why do *you* seek higher rank?' It was a question many had asked over the years. Thrawn had asked it of himself. The answer never seemed to satisfy the questioner. 'Because there are problems that must be solved. Some cannot be solved by anyone except me.

what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

On the other hand, I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

It's meaningless to just live. It's meaningless to just fight. I want to win.

No one has ever stood atop the heavens before. Not you…or I…or even the gods. But the unbearable vacancy of heaven's throne ends now. From now on…I will stand at the top.

No one stands on the top of the world. Not you, not me, not even gods. But the unbearable vacancy of the throne in the sky is over. From now on... I will be sitting on it

In the history of culture the discovery of zero will always stand out as one of the greatest single achievements of the human race.

The best way to achieve self-esteem is to do something worthy of esteem.

promoted to captain and given command of a company

A desire for recognition emerges at the same time as a sense of inferiority. A good upbringing should be able to dissolve this sense of inferiority, and as a result the child will not develop an unbalanced need to win at the expense of others.

While a complex may make someone more timid or withdrawn, it could equally produce the need to compensate for that in overachievement. This is the "pathological power drive," expressed at the expense of other people and society generally. Adler identified Napoleon, a small man making a big impact on the world, as a classic case of an inferiority complex in action.

To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.

Way to go, Dallas!

No complaints. The kid is back in the saddle," Jackson said, sitting down. "You should have been up in the Tomcat with me last week. Oh, man, I'm finally back in the groove. I was hassling with a guy in an A-4 playing aggressor, and I ruined his day. It was so fine." He grinned like a lion surveying a herd of crippled antelope. "I'm ready!" "When