Quotes About Achievement

Not aptitude....attitude is the criterion for success.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Winning is taking the talent or potential you were born with, and have since developed, and using it fully toward a goal or purpose that makes you happy.

Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted and encouraged-because last time you came in fifth.

Your attitude is either the lock on or key to your door of success.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

There are no shortcuts to success. Being successful requires knowledge, preparation and persistence.

Your natural gifts are the key to fulfilling your potential for success. Find your natural gifts, develop them and then use them to be the best you can be.

Commitment doesn't guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you'll fall short of your potential.

History alone looks upon war as a grand achievement; all else look upon it as a dreadful last resort.

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

Confidence you haven't earned always has the brightest glow.

Plans are just dreams until they're executed.

Win for me. Win for my kids. Win for my marriage so I can carry your winning back to the car with me and sit in the glow of it with my family as we drive back toward our otherwise winless lives.

If a man was lucky, he was moving toward something his whole life.

they had become the people her parents worked for. But they were better versions. And her parents, hungry as they were, would have expected no less. You couldn't fight the Haves. The only thing you could do was become them to such a degree that they came to you for what they had not.

Goal 3: That each child would learn the joy of successful ministry

Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work. Happiness is not an exception.

when people think or write about happiness, self-control is rarely stressed. … Yet happiness is impossible without self-control. In fact, everything we want is impossible without self-control. Ask anyone who has achieved what you particularly desire to achieve, and you will find a profoundly self-disciplined individual.

Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work.

While a pure mind may be a saintly ideal, for the rest of us mortals controlling our behavior is an enormous enough achievement.

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.