Quotes About Achievement

You have gone far and we are proud of you always. I know that you will keep your relationship with your Maker as it should be, for after all, that, as you must know, is the most important thing in this life.

My life will be the best illustration of all my work.

Det havde altid været et mål at få pension. Det var blevet sagt allerede ved hans vugge, at han skulle være noget, der gav ret til pension, når han blev 65. Pensuionen havde så at sige været formålet med hans liv.

this synthesis of God and the world is a divine idea, which is older and more deeply hidden than all things and for which everything else remains simply an approach, a means of achievement.64

Hanumant Deshmukh

You can make excuses or you can get the job done, but you can't do both.

And this is the stuff," said he to himself, "that makes possible the civilization that produces them.

Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

Fewer things will impact a team's morale than a leader who does not recognize their accomplishments and hard work.

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

From "boyhood up," as Lincoln once confided to his old friend Ward Hill Lamon, "my ambition was to be President.

I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley

The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

When he thought he was doing something that made a difference to people, he could bear any burden [Moses]. When he lost that sense of achievement, he became too discouraged to keep on doing the hard things.

Several recent authors have written of "the imposter phenomenon," describing the feeling of many apparently successful people that their success is undeserved and that one day people will unmask them for the frauds they are.

We have made the 20th century the century of the individual. For most of human history, a person was part of a family, part of a clan or tribe or neighborhood. People defined themselves on the basis of their relationships to other people, not on the basis of their individual achievements.

True success consists not in becoming the person you dreamed of being when you were young, but in becoming the person you were meant to be, the person you are capable of being when you are at your best.

The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.