Quotes About Achievement

I want to be a star

I know this isn't easy for anyone - nothing worth doing is every easy Brenda to Maisie Dobbs

Jacqueline Winspear

Do your work with a light step. Run your fingers across the weaving of knowledge you've gathered. Then you will be successful.

wherever a human being goes, there is a challenge. Be the best man you can, and your gods will look with favor upon you.

The world is not pretty. It's only the hard work of some people that makes it so.

those men and women who were openly committed to some worthy goal achieved more than those who were reluctant to associate themselves with anything.

When Wiktor asked how Miss Trilling had acquired so much knowledge of music, she resumed an earlier explanation which had been interrupted: "I attended a distinguished college in America, Oberlin, where music was important.

How a work of art ends is just as important as how it begins. A good opening entices us, but a strong finish nails down the experience.

It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it's absolutely essential. [check for wording] Proper pride says, I'm good at this. Improper pride says, I'm better than you.

Some of us got our reputations because we wrote good books or had clever publicists. He got his reputation through sheer hard work.

Un om trebuie judecat atunci când a dat din el tot ceea ce era de dat, când nu mai poate s?-È™i pun? eÈ™ecurile pe seama defectelor È™i când se bazeaz? pe propria putere pentru a izbândi.

Ambition means wanting better for yourself and expecting more out of life and aligning your skills and work ethic to achieve it. Ambition means being proactive about what you do and how you are rewarded.

What I am proposing is that we be honest with ourselves and instead of stretching to be the dumbest person at the level above you, choose instead to be the smartest person at the level below you. You're guaranteed to get there and the effort is not large. Over ambition is a ticket to underachievement and in the case of the medical profession, it's downright selfish.

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.

All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. His suffering and happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is. As he continues to think, so he remains.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.

They themselves are makers of themselves.

The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew a way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene.

The studied elimination of non-essentials from one's daily life is a vital factor in all great achievement.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.