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Quotes About Achievement

El éxito tiene muchos padres, pero el fracaso es huérfano.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
You will see that Charles set his sights high. Intelligent idlers always have, in order to justify their idleness to their intelligence.
~ John Fowles
He said, I suppose there are people who are purely moved by great art. I never met a painter who was. I'm not. All I think of when I see that picture is that it has the supreme mastery I have spent all my life trying to attain. And shall not. Ever.
~ John Fowles
Focusing on what we don't have is a waste of time and energy. To really make a difference, let's instead focus out energy on succeeding within the box.
~ John G. Miller
And never fall into that statistical macho trap that's so prevalent in fly-fishing these days. If you keep score, you can be beaten, but if you refuse to compete you can leave the impression that you have long since risen above that kind of crap. When someone says to you, "I caught forty-eight trout and ten of them were twenty inches or better. How'd you do?" say, "Yeah, we got some. Couple nice ones, too.
~ John Gierach
A man's deepest fear is that he is not good enough or that he is incompetent. He compensates for this fear by focusing on increasing his power and competence. Success, achievement, and efficiency are foremost in his life ... A man appears most uncaring when he is afraid.
~ John Gray
Their (men) sense of self is defined through their ability to achieve results. They experience fulfillment primarily through success and accomplishment.
~ John Gray
Martians value power, competency, efficiency, and achievement. They are always doing things to prove themselves and develop their power and skills. Their sense of self is defined through their ability to achieve results. They experience fulfillment primarily through success and accomplishment.
~ John Gray
A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.
~ John Gray
Raggiunto il successo, si guardarono indietro e capirono che ogni loro fallimento era stato necessario per il conseguimento dei loro obiettivi. Ogni errore aveva insegnato loro qualcosa.
~ John Gray
The common man cannot see things objectively because his mind is clouded by anxiety about achieving his goals. Seeing clearly means not projecting our goals into the world.
~ John Gray
Anyone can cook a trout. The real art is in hooking the damned thing.
~ John Grisham
They made it to graduation without further incident. Bruce, the class salutatorian, gave a well-honed speech. The commencement address was delivered by the Honorable Frank H. Seay, a popular district court judge from next door in Seminole County.
~ John Grisham
At the outset, I want to say that we would not be here if not for you. Your detective work over the past twenty years is nothing short of brilliant. It's a miracle, actually, and I've never encountered anything like
~ John Grisham
makes good grades, and
~ John Grisham
whom they could not find) and some sympathetic relatives. The poverty hurt, and they assumed, correctly, it had bred the intense desire to succeed.
~ John Grisham
aplausos. La coordinación siempre era el mayor
~ John Grisham
unsurpassing beauty or quality, for hope and for ultimate triumph.
~ John Guy
Darnley was utterly confident that he had pulled off a coup.
~ John Guy
She had great success in raising a royal army.
~ John Guy
success does not mean you cannot be tricked.
~ John Hodgman
He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.
~ John Irving
nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
~ John Irving
No matter what my fucking last words were, please say they were these: 'I have always known that the pursuit of excellence is a lethal habit.
~ John Irving