Quotes About Achievement

They themselves are makers of themselves. by

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. VISIONS

Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His

Man has within him the divine power by which he can rise to the highest heights of spiritual achievement; by which he can shake off sin and shame and sorrow, and do the will of the Father, the Supreme Good; by which he can conquer all the powers of darkness within, and stand radiant and free; by which he can subdue the world, and scale the lofty pinnacles of Truth.

Harry Bernstein was a total failure when he wrote his bestselling memoir, The Invisible Wall. His prior forty (forty!) novels had been rejected by publishers. When his memoir came out, he was ninety-three years old. A quote from him: "If I had not lived until I was 90, I would not have been able to write this book, God knows what other potentials lurk in other people, if we could only keep them alive well into their 90s.

Barbara Cortland broke the world record. In 1983, she wrote 23 novels. She was 82 years old. Two novels a month that year. Altogether she wrote 723 published novels. The last she wrote at age 97. When she died a year later, there were 160 unpublished novels still waiting to be published. Did people like her work? Depending on what estimate you use, she sold between 600 million and 2 billion books. Most of her books were romance novels.

And it took him about 15 years of writing every day, writing thousands of poems and stories before he finally started making a living as a writer. He wrote his first novel at the age of 49 and it was financially successful. After 25 years of plugging away at it he was finally a successful writer.

Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream. Our dad used to say that." Dreams are in the head. But action creates growth, creates skill, creates excellence.

If you want to be successful, you need to study success, not hate it or be envious of it. If you are envious, then you will distance yourself from success and make it that much harder to get there. Never be jealous. Never think someone is "lucky." Luck is created by the prepared. Never think that someone is undeserving of the money they have. That only puts you one more

There were about ten different areas I needed to improve and gradually I improved them all and sold the company a year later. EXPAND THE

So the question is not, when is an idea too big? It's how do I make all ideas smaller and achievable? You do this by developing the idea muscle:

If I had only focused on big successes," he said, "then I would be disappointed most of the time. You have to focus on the small successes and make sure to celebrate them.

Keep failing until you accidentally no longer fail.

If you lower your expectations, for instance, your expectations are easy to exceed.

Keep going until you hit the finish line!" It's "Keep failing until you accidentally no longer fail." That's persistence. NOT

In that Facebook movie (you know, the Justin Timberlake vehicle), JT says, "A million's not cool. A BILLION is cool." Well, actually JT, very often a million is pretty cool.

the only way to have success is to build the foundation for it.

College. Owning a home. Marriage. Children. Having a cushy job. Postponing our dreams for when there will be money. "Work hard and succeed!" Ten thousand hours to mastery. And so on.

40% of people who graduate college never read a book again. If you are in the remaining 60% you are 1000× ahead of everyone else.

Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. One hundred years from now your hands will rot like dust in your grave.

Is this just a dream? Can life be lived so large? Have I been able to live life so large? To live to my fullest potential?

The definition of "success" for me is: "Is today successful?

True wealth occurs when you don't have to bow down to any gatekeepers—regardless of the money involved. Money is just a by-product. You are out of prison. You are free.

My theory always in any career is that it takes one to three years to do the studying required. About two years before you are making any money at the new career. Three to four years before you are making a living from it and five to six years before you are killing it.