Quotes About Achievement

In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it

You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.

The Four Keys, select for talent, define the right outcomes, focus on strengths, find the right fit, reveal how they attack this goal.

Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

be defeated; hence to me, to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.

to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.

The Negro will have to build his own industry, art, sciences, literature, and culture before the world will stop to consider him.

whipped. It annoys me to be defeated; hence to me, to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.

and it might be only small things that separate guys who are very good from guys who are absolutely excellent, outstanding.

And a short nod of respect is in order, because it's harder to become a Navy SEAL than it is to get into Harvard Law School. Different, but harder.

Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories to moon rockets, the nation had created, had viewed that as part of the national identity. Being an engineer or an architect had once been high aspirations.

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you are going to find that the heights you've attained make for a long fall if you don't understand the mountain.

Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories to moon rockets, the nation had created, had viewed that as part of the national identity.

One thing I believe with all my soul: Don't try to guess somebody's ceiling.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel crown to praise.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.