Quotes About Achievement

Ultimately, my goal in life is to arrive at the finish line without having regrets.

Dessert is my reward for having met my goals during the day. Really, dessert is an event rather than a specific item.

That which went wrong, and that which went right, would have been made easier if I were more focused on my goals.

I have issues with my parents, but their greatest gift was forcing me to produce my own results. Through the ups and downs of my life, my work ethic is my most prized characteristic. No matter what kind of pinch I'm in, I can fight my way to the other side with grit and determination.

In my mother's mind, all I'd achieved was due to her, and not my own efforts.

Nobody who ever accomplished anything big or new or worth raising a celebratory fist in the air did it from their comfort zone. They risked ridicule and failure and sometimes even death.

maybe, if you put your disbelief aside, roll up your sleeves, take some risks, and totally go for it, you'll wake up one day and realize you're living the kind of life you used to be jealous

Nada es imposible para alguien con una mente de principiante, es lo que Suzuki le está diciendo. Doug Larson, un periodista del siglo XX, lo dijo de una manera más graciosa: Algunos de los mayores logros del mundo fueron realizados por personas que no fueron lo suficientemente inteligente para saber que eran imposibles.

The Moses of her people had fallen in the hour of his triumph. His tragic death was all the more heartbreaking because he had not lived to enjoy the peace he had toiled so long to achieve.

Don't worry, honey, Suzanne's mother says to Suzanne. One day you'll set the world on fire.

A lot of the early jazz artists, of course, couldn't even walk through the front door of the hotels and clubs they were playing in and had to enter through back doors and kitchens, and I think Jean felt this was a metaphor for his place in the art world: he had entered through the back door. He broke into the white art world in a way that had never been done before by any black.

Exciting wasn't turning out obe as easy as she'd thought it would be, but it was definitely worth pursuing.

After a few hours they stopped to have soup, but Wanda kept going alone, eager for the window of opportunity to be the first woman on the summit.

She had done it alone, without support or gas, and when she had come off the mountain, she had been an instant star, chased through airports by reporters and hounded for interviews

Few women had climbed its North Face, and even fewer had done it in winter, but no one had done it alone. She and Jim began talking up her plans and flouting her achievements.

Women had made progress - Jo only had to look as far as the television set to see it - but she wondered whether they would ever not try to have it all and do it all and do it all flawlessly. Would the day ever come when simply doing your best would be enough?

Would the day ever come when simply doing your best would be enough?

When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there.. whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.

see it—but she wondered whether they would ever not try to have it all and do it all and do all of it flawlessly. Would the day ever come when simply doing your best would be enough? Her

assuming that their hard work, not their privilege, was what ensured them their good jobs, good schools, nice houses, and pricy vacations. Born on third base and think they hit a triple

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through.

Over the course of the next three years, Hirschmann shuffled between four countries, enlisted to fight in a civil war, joined an underground resistance, and got a doctoral degree.

A tribe of my own. A daughter. Claire. Precious and frail. Smart like her father. Now twenty years old and a college graduate, ready to begin her master's program with a focus on biology, she is the love of my life. The solitary concern of my heart.

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