Quotes About Achievement

My parents never recognized the things that for me were achievements. I was praised for the things that came naturally to me, like my intelligence, but when I really put all my effort into looking nice (trying to), it went unrecognised. No-one ever told me I looked pretty or nice, or that I was a beautiful person (to them) and I needed them to...

I write because I love how I feel to have written.

The essence of writing? A hound chasing a fox: irrationally compelled to win the prize and eventual disappointment that it's eluded you.

People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.

It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.

although they might never be rich or famous in America, they would have the satisfaction of knowing that what they had they had made for themselves.

It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.

Genius is not enough; we need to get the job done.

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

Think about your hero. Do you think of this person as someone with extraordinary abilities who achieved with little effort? Now go find out the truth. Find out the tremendous effort that went into their accomplishment—and admire them more.

effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

If you had to choose, which would it be? Loads of success and validation or lots of challenge?

People may start with different temperaments and different aptitudes, but it is clear that experience, training, and personal effort take them the rest of the way.

If you're somebody when you're successful, what are you when you're unsuccessful?

When people with the fixed mindset opt for success over growth, what are they really trying to prove? That they're special. Even superior.

They'd had no interest in proving themselves. They just did what they loved—with tremendous drive and enthusiasm—and it led where it led.

person's true potential is unknown (and unknowable); that it's impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with years of passion, toil, and training. Did

Skills and achievement come through commitment and effort.

important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies.

Now consider the idea that they just used better strategies, taught themselves more, practiced harder, and worked their way through obstacles. You can do that, too, if you want to.

the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.

Some of the world's best athletes didn't start out being that hot. If you have a passion for a sport, put in the effort and see.

Malcolm Gladwell, the author and New Yorker writer, has suggested that as a society we value natural, effortless accomplishment over achievement through effort. We endow our heroes with superhuman abilities that led them inevitably toward their greatness.

Think of times other people outdid you and you just assumed that they were smarter or more talented. Now consider the idea that they just used better strategies, taught themselves more, practiced harder, and worked their way through obstacles. You can do that too, if you want to.