Quotes About Achievement

When you are anxious because of your to-do list take comfort in your have-done list.

Fear of success can be as paralyzing as fear of failure.

Almost always, the work an author thinks is their worst turns out to be quite good. Sometimes it's even considered their best stuff.

that's when you get your butt kicked', as Wilander puts it. He reflects on his finest moments, not

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

Money equals freedom.

Dream big, but allow yourself the opportunity to start small, and have your share of struggles in the beginning. The world's greatest composers weren't writing symphonies the day they first sat at a piano.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world, and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia, and I'm proud of them.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.

If you were rich, and you were a dude, it really felt like if you just followed a certain number of steps, you could do pretty much whatever you wanted.

What you'll find, I think, is that the things you most want to avoid are the things that make you feel the greatest when you actually do them.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

While improvement in your habits and actions is a life-long process, the desire to achieve it can thus be sparked in a moment.

There is no wine in this world as heady as applause.

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

That's not a goal," Kit said. "Why? Because it's not yours? Which is better, Kit Meinem of Atyar? A single great victory, or a thousand small ones?

When you make a plan to merge your real-life goals with your money, you may discover you have to overcome yourself more than anyone or anything else.

I languish around in my life, never quite doing what I set out to do. I am tired of being a silver medalist, and tired of fighting uphill battles that I only sort of win.

Fear of failure is an insidious thing. Leads people to pretend they never wanted a medal in the first place.

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it

I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.

The Incas, although an authoritarian monarchy, had succeeded nevertheless during their short reign not only in creating a massive empire, but perhaps more importantly in guaranteeing all of the empire's millions of inhabitants the basic necessities of life: adequate food, water, and shelter. It was an achievement that no subsequent government -- Spanish or Peruvian -- has attained since