Quotes About Achievement

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

[Y]ou can do it, even if you can't. Just keep can'ting until eventually you can.

Climb from the depths of your soul to the heights of your future.

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.

That was freaking awesome; That's how I feel. That was the best feeling in my high school career.

I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they're impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams.

I truly believe anything is possible if you fully manifest it.

Anything is possible. No one understands how far you can push your body to the limit, and I like to play with that.

If you really put your mind to it, anything is possible.

My dad always taught me if I have my education, anything is possible.

I do feel, in a lot of ways, that I'm living proof that anything is possible.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.

Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.

Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.

Success is 80% attitude and 20% aptitude.

Attitude is altitude.

People who retain their childish attitudes will rarely be able to hold on to the success they may achieve through their talent.

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter… I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.

This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this – nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously 'creative'.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Having mastered the long sword at an early age—for some a lifelong struggle!—Musashi would go on to master the use of two swords simultaneously, as well as the other popular weapons of his day: the manriki chain, the shuriken throwing star, archery, spear, and bo-staff. Still not satisfied, before the end of his life, Musashi also became a respected calligrapher, painter, sculptor, writer, and master of the cha-do tea ceremony.