Quotes About Achievement

Thing about that ladder, Shiv, each rung you climb there's another arse waiting to be licked." "What a lovely image." "We all need some poetry in our lives.

How our horizons shrink when we stride towards them.

I don't think your insecurity ever disappears. Sometimes I think the more successful you become the less secure you feel. This is kind of frightening, really.

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

I don't rhyme about guns I ain't shot Hoes I ain't caught Or shit I ain't bought.

But when I got to what I thought was the finish line, at the end of that hustling road, there was no winning—

to be all the fuck that I can be, you know?

had five straight gold albums—about a ten-year plateau—and then my sales just dropped off a steep fucking cliff. From being able to ship half a million records, suddenly I was only shipping

bring in certificates of fully completed classes. I wanted to show the board that I was applying myself to change. I wanted them to see that I had the training and desire to work an honest job out in the world.

Once I had every trade certificate I could get at Corcoran, I enrolled in a two-year college program. It had been

Eventually, I became a certified substance-abuse counselor.

My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

De acuerdo con los sufis, existe una sucesión de experiencias, que en conjunto constituyen la maduración educativa y evolutiva del estudiante. La gente que piensa que cada logro es la meta misma se congelará en cualquiera de tales etapas, y no podrá aprender por medio de lecciones sucesivas y sustitutivas.

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work

Las personas con objetivos falaces son como la tierra árida. Las flores crecen en la tierra compuesta de los objetivos correctos.

Si buscas pequeñas cosas que hacer, y las haces bien, grandes cosas te buscarán y exigirán que las realices.

Cuando el Hombre Superior hace algo digno de admiración, es una prueba de su Maestría, no el objeto de ella.

I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.

The world is like a goat's udder. It does not yield any milk, unless you punch and squeeze at it