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Quotes About Achievement

greatest enemy to tomorrow's success is sometimes today's success.
~ John C. Maxwell
If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it.
~ John C. Maxwell
When you accomplish something that you once believed was impossible, it makes you a new person. It changes the way you see yourself and the world.
~ John C. Maxwell
You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training," says (Seth) Godin. "There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don't spring up overnight…every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little." There is no magic solution to success.
~ John C. Maxwell
Success consists of a series of little daily victories." —Laddie F. Hutar
~ John C. Maxwell
There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.
~ John C. Maxwell
If you know who you are, make the changes you must in order to learn and grow, and then give everything you've got to your dreams, you can achieve anything your heart desires.
~ John C. Maxwell
Don't worry about making friends; don't worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can't hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can't stand you.
~ John C. Maxwell
Every successful person is someone who failed, yet never regarded himself as a failure.
~ John C. Maxwell
Life lived for tomorrow will always be a day away from being realized.
~ John C. Maxwell
To reach your potential you must grow. And to grow, you must be highly intentional about it.
~ John C. Maxwell
En Harvard y otras universidades, estudiaron la importancia de la actitud en el éxito de las personas. Se descubrió que la actitud era mucho más importante que la inteligencia, la educación, el talento especial o la suerte. De hecho, se llegó a la conclusión de que hasta un 85% del éxito en la vida se debe a tener una actitud positiva y educable, mientras que sólo un 15% se debe a la capacidad.
~ John C. Maxwell
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." —DAVID SCHWARTZ
~ John C. Maxwell
Average" is the top of the bottom, the best of the worst, the bottom of the top, the worst of the best. Which of these are you?
~ John C. Maxwell
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.
~ John C. Maxwell
The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
~ John C. Maxwell
I got to the top the hard way—fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way.
~ John C. Maxwell
The road to the next level is always uphill, and if a team isn't intentionally fighting to move up, then it inevitably slides down.
~ John C. Maxwell
We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication.
~ John C. Maxwell
There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born.… When he seizes it… it is his finest hour.
~ John C. Maxwell
Success is achieved in inches, not miles.
~ John C. Maxwell
Every time we choose action over ease we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect, and self-confidence.
~ John C. Maxwell
I state in my book Put Your Dream to the Test that the more valid reasons a person has to achieve their dream, the higher the odds are that they will. Valid reasons also increase the odds that a person will follow through with personal growth.
~ John C. Maxwell
El destino no es cuestión de suerte, es cuestión de decisión; no es algo que se espera, es algo que se logra».
~ John C. Maxwell