Quotes About Achievement

It's sad but true. Most people who just "go with the flow" wind up complaining about where they "floated." They go around saying life is not fair. Well, I disagree. Life is totally fair. You get what you go for. Go for nothing and you get nothing. Go for something and, even if you miss your main goal, you might still achieve a lot of good stuff along the way.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.  

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

A pretty accurate rule of thumb is the people who did the most talk about it the least. The blowhards are the ones who did squat.

People who lack confidence rarely win anything," he noted.

that one could never be the same afterward. It pushed bone, muscle, ligaments, and brains to places they were never intended to go. It was no wonder that so many men who had played the game were now suffering the long-term debilitating effects of entertaining millions and making large sums of money for doing so.

Grand master of memory? What did she have to do?" "Three tasks. The first was to memorize one thousand random numbers in an hour. Next, she had to memorize the order of ten decks of cards in an hour. And lastly, memorize the order of one deck of cards in under two minutes.

DB. What finally got

For Tom the vision of Agnes Joe crammed inside the cockpit of a two-seater Cessna, her hammy fingers curled around the yoke, her enormous feet on the rudder pedals, wavered right on hallucinatory.

can do this. You can make it. Forty miles per hour. He pushed the throttles ahead and crept the speed stick up to forty-five. He was almost topped out now. Even with the twin stern-drive engines he wouldn't be able to muster more speed without unduly depleting his fuel. And there

After a few moments of silence Puller said, "You think he was achieving all of it for his father? Because he never got the chance to do it himself?" Rooney pointed at him. "That's what I believe.

Normal people don't grow up to do the sorts of jobs we do, Jessica

People who lack confidence rarely win anything . - John Puller

What's your next

eight-story building. It looked like a place where young people just starting out or older people downsizing might live mixed in with a healthy dose of middle-aged people who had simply never fully realized their goals in life.

David Baldacci

You could have been a great scientist or something. Or a writer.

In his mind progress was always to be measured in inches, especially when you didn't have yards or even feet of success to show off.

And when they were elected, they arrived in Washington with absolutely no idea what to do. Their only goal had already been achieved: They had won their campaign. However

He had started to forget what it was like to hit one out of the park. After Sullivan

Adam Smith saw what had happened to markets and societies for millennia. Winners are never satisfied with success in the latest market battle, with a cool product or financial or political achievement. As humans, we use any recent advantage to ensure that competitors will fail in future struggles.

Might human sapience be a fluke? Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr said—"Nothing demonstrates the improbability of high intelligence better than the fifty billion earthly species that failed to achieve it.

No one is going to give a damn about your résumé; they want to see what you have made with your own little fingers.

It seems to me that all our endless failures are adding up to a magnificent success. It's just not what we had in mind. It's real.