Quotes About Achievement

Gunning for average is your best shot at finishing above average.

Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change.

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.

Dreams don't work unless you do

Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.

Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking.

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

Little progress is better than no progress at all. Success comes in taking many small steps. If you stumble in a small step, it rarely matters. Don't gift wrap the garbage. Let little failures go.

Successful people do the things that unsuccessful people are unwilling to do. —JOHN C. MAXWELL

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

No, none of these things are the key. When it comes right down to it, I know of only one factor that separates those who consistently shine from those who don't: The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. Nothing else has the same kind of impact on people's ability to achieve and to accomplish whatever their minds and hearts desire.

The reality is that you will never get much done unless you go ahead and do it before you are ready.

Nobody achieves anything great by giving the minimum. No teams win championships without making sacrifices and giving their best.

Nobody finishes well by accident.

you can act your way into feeling long before you can feel your way into action. If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

If you want to be a leader, the good news is that you can do it. Everyone has the potential, but it isn't accomplished overnight. It requires perseverance.

The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be.

Sometimes we are afraid because success puts pressure on us to continue to succeed.

Today Matters People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow. That's why today matters.

Action is what converts human dreams into significance.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done and those who don't want to make mistakes.

If at First You Do Succeed, Try Something Harder