Quotes About Achievement

Winnen is niets, mijn jongen. Winnen laat geen sporen na. Winnen is bevrediging. Verliezen is leven.

Once she was behind, how could she catch up?

It's hard not to think and hope that your children might achieve great things—and to believe that they can accomplish anything if you only give them a boost along the way. But it's also hard to know when you're helping and supporting, and when you've crossed the line into pushing. And it's so easy to fall into the mindset of "I'm doing it for your own good.

Rules existed for a reason: if you followed them, you would succeed;

Is there anything that gives you a deeper sense of satisfaction?

higher standard than her other children, to demand more from her, yet at the same time to overlook her successes in favor of her faults.

I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara , which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon , which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up.

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

But just because a person goes to Harvard doesn't mean he's balanced when he graduates, and just because a dog knows how to obey doesn't mean he's balanced, either.

The real failure is not the man who does not succeed in great things who ever has? but in little things, making a home, keeping a friend, keeping a woman happy, earning his living like anyone else. He is the most miserable failure.

Quello era tutto il mio passato, insopportabile eppure così diverso, così morto. M'ero detta tante volte in quegli anni - e poi più avanti, ripensandoci - che lo scopo della mia vita era proprio di riuscire, di diventare qualcuna, per tornare un giorno in quelle viuzze dov'ero stata bambina e godermi il calore, lo stupore, l'ammirazione di quei visi familiari, di quella piccola gente. E c'ero riuscita, tornavo; e le facce la priccola gente eran tutti scomparsi.

Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is environmental generosity, without direction, without 'for me' and without 'for them.' It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, and constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.

It seems backward, but keeping your mind focused on the present will get you further toward your goals than keeping your mind focused on the goal itself.

I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.

If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it's when we're closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus farthest from ourselves, which is when we'll tread through any flame.

I'm a B+ student of life.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.

My work had been successful. I cannot disclose the nature of the operation as the agency may have other work to do on it.

There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.

You know it's gone to hell, when the best rapper out there is a white guy and the best golfer is a black guy.

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

She has a winning smile. She wins, she always wins.