Quotes About Achievement

Want something hard enough and work for it, and you'll get it, but when you get it it will either prove to be not wholly what you wanted, or something will happen to soil it.

Nothing in life ever was a complete and one hundred per cent success, but often one could well afford to settle for less, and this would seem to be the greatest lesson one could learn in life.

pretty soon Lou Gehrig was poling them high, wide and handsome over the college fences. He hit seven home runs in one season, one of them the longest ever seen at South Field, and batted over .540. And he won himself a new name. They called him the "Babe Ruth of Columbia.

In our world, you sink or swim, and there are no excuses.

Always produce.

To be happy I think you have to be doing something you not only enjoy, but admire.

looking at things from other people's point of view is practically the secret of success.

Once you cross the threshold of profitability, however low, your runway becomes infinite.

One sign that determination matters more than talent: there are lots of talented people who never achieve anything, but not that many determined people who don't.

Wealth is what you want, not money.

Measurement and Leverage To get rich you need to get yourself in a situation with two things, measurement and leverage. You need to be in a position where your performance can be measured, or there is no way to get paid more by doing more. And you have to have leverage, in the sense that the decisions you make have a big effect.

With ambition, you tend to get one step below what you aim for. So unless you try to be the best, you won't even be good.

In 2015, Brazil earned the final $100 million payment of a $1 billion grant from Norway, which had set up the fund in 2008 to reward countries that achieved targeted goals of reducing their rate of deforestation.

Ronald Reagan, from his governorship to his presidency, kept a sign on his desk that read, "There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

The things you people can do now!" Unlikely Worlds said. "The stories you make!

the single difference between success and failure, between gain and loss, has boiled down to two words: applied knowledge.

School chasers, on the other hand, will have stunning résumés but are functionally illiterate in their fields and are often socially inept. Much of the time, they put so much energy in getting certificates, they never do their job, or their entire focus is spent on getting the "slot," that they never have a chance to develop their team. Further, if they are always in school, they are never home to pass the knowledge on and develop their teams.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

I am not interested in excuses for delay; I am interested only in a thing done.

Lying on a flat, sun-heated rock to get my breath, procrastinating, I soon abandoned my effort to get to the top of Cerro Potosí.

made notes on my progress through the mountains, which had thrilled me.

the journey is the goal.

the obstacles to becoming noticed or published

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined.