Quotes About Achievement

That's the one thing that came out of the war—women proved how much they were capable of tackling.

Because it takes work, often a lot of work and sacrifice, you have to really want to bring something into being.

Finding a positive motivation also engages your emotional brain to work for the change, not against it. Remember, it wants to go toward pleasure. So the more emotionally pleasurable your positive motivation, the more it will help you achieve your goal.

Behavior we celebrate grows ever stronger.

There's always time to launch your dreams

Winning is not a sometime thing; it is an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all of the time." —Vince Lombardi

It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.

Ao vencedor, as batatas.

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.

Professional means you have to do things according to the book. They call you Professional to limit your ability. Don't strive to be professional, but to be the best you can be

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

But most of all, I'd like to thank me. Without me, none of this would have been possible. I really did a bang-up job on this book, and I deserve all the credit. I hereby revoke all the gratitude I expressed above and keep it for myself.

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Men get lazy when life is too easy. Good minds go slack and good bodies get fat. Nine out of ten men in the ton have achieved nothing but the pursuit of pleasure.

Children need work experiences to develop a sense that success is a function of their own efforts.

In the real world, success has all kinds of different faces in all kinds of different fields of endeavor. It would be nice if we could acknowledge as much to our kids.

It is when a parent's love is experienced as conditional on achievement that children are at risk for serious emotional problems.

While A Nation at Risk recommended significantly more homework, it is doubtful that the three to four hours of often mindless homework that many high school students put in on a daily basis is what its authors had in mind. Many countries that score higher than the United States on international tests of achievement give less, not more, homework than we do.

We should be encouraging our children to push themselves, to develop their talents and passions, but we should also be aware that the bromide "You can do anything" is wishful thinking.

When we pay for tutors and turn a blind eye to irresponsible behavior, whether it's cheating or not getting adequate sleep, are we fooling ourselves? When we tell our children we want them to have "options," is that really another way of saying that we want them to get the best possible grades, so they can go to the best possible college and graduate school, to prepare them for the best possible jobs, which disproportionately seem to be in the field of finance?

Pride became us—heroes were never modest.

Who was he if not destined for fame?