Quotes About Achievement

After hearing our presentation, audience members would raise their hands and ask, "So, what was the single big thing you did to achieve these great results?" "Well," I said, "there was no single best practice. It was a mind-set of intellectual rigor we had adopted that made the difference. It's this mind-set that you should be striving to replicate in your own organization.

you cannot earn worth through what you do. Achievements can bring you satisfaction but not happiness. Self-worth based on accomplishments is a "pseudo-esteem

The trouble with doing things that others said were impossible, Daniel thought, is that people keep coming up with other impossible things. Eventually they're likely to be right.

Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it... --Eriond

Even the greatest of heroes and men Are less than what they might have been. —a saying of Mystarria

No hay límite en lo que un hombre puede alcanzar en la medida que no le importe quién asuma el crédito." BOB WOODRUFF, COCA-COLA

It's a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass ring that usually involves people feeling some way about you – I mean, people wonder why we walk around feeling alienated and lonely and stressed out.

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

his own father told him that talent is sort of a dark gift, that talent is its own expectation: it is there from the start and either lived up to or lost.

every failure is also a victory.

Le graduatorie servono a farvi capire a che punto siete, non chi siete. Memorizzate il vostro piazzamento mensile, poi dimenticatelo.

Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win.

if you're poor old Mario Incandenza you take your competitive strokes where you can find them.

You play right up to your limit and then pass your limit and look back at your former limit and wave a hankie at it, embarking.

All the good things on this earth are trophy cups. The strong win them. The weak lose them. from a speech by the Nazi Minister of Education

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Your fate awaits you. Accept it in body and spirit. To get used to the life you'll most likely be leading soon, get rid of your low-class trappings.

All's well that ends well.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere;

Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.