Quotes About Achievement

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

It was a question of distinguishing between the possible and the impossible, of knowing how far to go without going too far.

The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

All triumphs are made of the same stuff: the right support, the right team, the determination to achieve the goal, lots of really hard work. And all triumphs are much more about choice than they are about chance.

Success is the result of psychologically preparing for it, prior to achieving it!

I never envisioned myself playing for the U.S. Olympic team -- growing up, I never envisioned playing in the NBA, to be real with you. I never envisioned that type of stuff. So this is like a dream that I never had come true. It's like I'm a part of what's really going on. It's still very hard for me to believe that I am really going to be a part of the biggest thing in the whole entire world.

Another great moment was signing my first check, seeing all those zeroes. I'm thinking: Could you spend all those zeroes?

Look, I won in high school, I won a national championship in college, I want to win one in the NBA. But winning a gold medal, I don't think anything can top that.

At this point in my career I'm not concerned about the money, it's about winning. Nothing else even matters.

It's been said that success doesn't lead to happiness; happiness creates success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm.

In his own mind he had already achieved success in America. Now he had to go through the motions.

In Mastery author Robert Greene argues that we all have the ability to push the limits of human potential.

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

Black respectability or "appropriate" behavior doesn't seem to matter. If anything, black achievement, black aspirations, and black success are construed as direct threats. Obama's presidency made that clear. Aspirations and the achievement of these aspirations provide no protection. Not even to the God-fearing. On

That a child could excel even when "forced to attend an underfunded school with poorer physical facilities, less experienced teachers, larger classes," and a number of other deficits compared with "a school with substantially more funds," Marshall barked, "is to the credit of the child not the State.

Grappling with America's trenchant refusal to open up the doors to quality education, Time announced that the "gap between what the Negro now achieves and what he might achieve indicates that he is the nation's most wasted resource."122

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don't like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.

So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, "Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let's do something you can really learn from!

Think about what you want to look back and say. Then choose your mindset.

Effort gives meaning to life.

Beware of success. It can knock you into a fixed mindset.