Quotes About Achievement

It is hard to know whether an air of self-confidence precedes or follows success.

She was a Tri Delt, majoring in finding a diamond ring.

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

A name, Mag thought, is but a tag. A man may be born with one name, achieve another. Honor and power come from the heart.

No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge.

My skill level is so high I do things I don't even try to do.

My philosophy is aim high and fail big.

Congratulations. You caught yourself a Munchkin.

I would have graduated higher, but I flunked gravy.

I graduated J&W in the top ninety-three percent of my class, and I would have graduated higher, but I flunked gravy. My gravy had lumps in it, and that pretty much sums up my life so far. Not that it's been all bad; more that it hasn't been entirely smooth.

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Well, you must be doing something right. Someone wants to kill you. That's always a good sign.

It's not that he was going nowhere, it's that he'd already arrived.

at least if you were ignorant you could do wat you wanted. you had no idea wat had been acheived in the past. you were free instead of chewed at by bleeding impotence, dissolved away like a pearl in acid

Just a beginner, but he learned so fast. Everything came so damn easy to him. Not true. The hard things cam easy. But the easy things he found impossibly hard.

Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.

It's a different thing when you play on a team that has to win, that doesn't consider it a good year unless you win the championship.

'Mad Men' is a hard act to follow. Unless you're called Elisabeth Moss, stuff like this only comes along once in your career.

I think that, initially, I was most passionate about music and particularly about playing the piano. I started playing when I was nine, and I was obsessed with it, really. I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent to be able to play the piano professionally.

I'd be twice as hard on my agent to get on the case. Because I think that's the only way you end up with Bridgerton.' You don't get there unless you're knocking on the door.

You can't succeed in the markets today unless you are part of a great team. The team is the essence of how you win.

Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he landed. He also spent his time in public service, not in jail, and his passing was marked by world-wide encomiums. He ended his days as a celebrated explorer rather than a royal inconvenience.

We didn't slow down, unlike the others, when we got to the moon because we needed its gravity to get back, so we hold the altitude record. I never even thought about it. Records are only made to be broken.

Unlike the Obama Cabinet, the Trump Cabinet is not comprised of do-nothing bureaucrats, who worked their way up the twisted, scheme-ridden Washington ladder; rather, they are doers, achievers, and leaders, who have attained the heights of greatness in their particular fields.