Quotes About Achievement

St. Francis of Assisi: Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you will be doing the impossible.

these men signed up all those years ago for the full five-course meal, including the bitter dessert, and they got to this point without ever doing anything to push back from the table and use their lives to accomplish something useful.

Self-Satisfaction

The rest of this book is about hard work, but it is the best work you will ever do. If

I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)

I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

it's tempting to start universities and build hospitals when you want to put a little gloss on your life as one of the greatest thieves in American history.

for Aristotle contemplation is the highest good that a life can achieve. It is the good he associates with the gods.

The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match.

Education is the key to unlock the doors of opportunity and success, but it requires dedication, hard work, and a willingness to never stop learning.

She always fought, as Sonia Ardakani noticed, 'tooth and nail for the things she wanted in life'.

my name is recognised, my star meter is rising, my life is changing.

It's not what you think that counts, it's what you do.

He noted the remarkable contrast between how the depressed person feels—that they are a loser or that their life has gone horribly wrong—and the actual conditions of their life, which are often high in achievement. Beck's conclusion was that depression therefore had to be based on problems in thinking. By

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

An overnight success is ten years in the making.

Sometimes, life is like mountain climbing. After you've achieved your biggest goals, you must return to the starting point to complete the journey and share your story with others to encourage them for their climb.

Count on the best people outperforming the worst by about 10:1. • Count on the best performer being about 2.5 times better than the median performer. • Count on the half that are better-than-median performers outdoing the other half by more than 2:1.