Quotes About Achievement

Me emocionó escuchar recientemente que Haim Ginott, a través del trabajo de toda su vida con los niños, llegó a la misma conclusión: «El elogio no debería ser sobre los atributos personales del niño, sino sobre su esfuerzo y sus logros».

Mrs. Collins, if we do not learn and work hard, we will take an Icarian flight to nowhere.

But if your claim to fame is not having any deficiencies - if you're considered a genius, a talent, or a natural - then you have a lot to lose. Effort can reduce you.

Since this was a kind of IQ test, you might say that praising ability lowered the students' IQs. And that praising their effort raised them.

Was it Mozart's musical ability or the fact that he worked till his hands were deformed? Was

Those with the growth mindset found success in doing their best, in learning and improving. And this is exactly what we find in the champions.

work harder, seek help, and try to catch up.

Only their continued motivation and commitment, along with their network of support, took them to the top.

the somebody–nobody syndrome. If I win, I'll be somebody; if I lose I'll be nobody.

Michael Jordan embraced his failures. In fact, in one of his favorite ads for Nike, he says: "I've missed more than nine thousand shots. I've lost almost three hundred games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot, and missed." You can be sure that each time, he went back and practiced the shot a hundred times.

Uh-oh, it's the somebody-nobody syndrome. If I win, I'll be somebody; if I lose I'll be nobody.

con la mentalidad adecuada y la enseñanza apropiada, la gente es capaz de mucho más de lo que pensamos.

Recuerda, las notas de los exámenes y los logros anteriores te dicen dónde está un alumno, pero no te dicen nada de dónde puede acabar.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

A successful student is one whose primary goal is to expand their knowledge and their ways of thinking and investigating the world. They do not see grades as an end in themselves but as means to continue to grow.

Of course, after the creative act no one cared about follow-through. That was beneath them.

Acaso cualquiera puede hacer cualquier cosa? De verdad que no lo sé. Sin embargo, creo que podemos estar de acuerdo ahora en que la gente puede hacer mucho más de lo que parece.

In the growth mindset, it's almost inconceivable to want something badly, to think you have a chance to achieve it, and then do nothing about it.

Binet recognized, it's not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

For twenty years, my research has shown that 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. How

Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?

Before we judge, let's remember that effort isn't quite everything and that all effort is not created equal.

The top is where the fixed-mindset people hunger to be, but it's where many growth-minded people arrive as a by-product of their enthusiasm for what they do.

If you work hard at something, you get out what you put in.