Quotes About Achievement

Today, did I do my best and forget the rest?

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment; full effort is full victory. —MAHATMA GANDHI

knowledge is power, and action is results.

to improve the clarity of what you want to achieve or what your goals are exactly you should write them down. This will also improve your chances of success.

Writing a book and not publishing it, is like building a boat and never sailing it - UNTHINKABLE!

not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." Michelangelo

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

How does one get famous?" the Joxter asked. "Oh, just by doing something that nobody else has been able to do.

Hvis man prøver av alle krefter, til det ytterste, må det ikke være hensikten som teller mest, teller mer enn hvordan det til slutt gikk?

There ought to be a big fuss when people move up in the world.

My head was awhirl with thoughts I really had no need of, and for the first time I found no pleasure at all in thinking about myself. I had sunk into a state of deep gloom, which has also come over me at times later in my life when other people are achieving more than I myself.

It's like he's a puppy that's finally pooped outside,

I'm as famous as I want to be.

What are you not committed to, only because you don't believe it can be done?

Impossible Anything that is outside of your reality—anything that occurs as something that is not possible for you to accomplish, or not possible for you to accomplish at this time and/or under these circumstances.

A Winning Strategy is a lifelong, unconscious formula for achieving success. You did not design this Winning Strategy, it designed you. As a human being and as a leader, it is the source of your success and at the same time the source of your limitations. It defines your reality, your way of being, and your way of thinking. This, in turn, focuses your attention and shapes your actions, thereby determining what's possible and not possible for you as a leader.

Every human being has his or her own Winning Strategy—a Strategy for winning the games of life, for "making it" in life—or even for surviving in life.

The view reminded of the Haitain proverb "Beyond mountains there are mountains" which meant that when you'd solved one problem, you couldn't rest because you had to go on and solve the next.

It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.