Quotes About Achievement

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Stay excited and stay humble and good things will come.

I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.

Why train for years to do a job, you bitched about all day? Didn't it make more sense to follow your dreams and maybe do a little good at the same time.

Sure, I could give advice I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.

It's a tough lesson: There is no summit that comes before you expect it.

I just love all this,' Walt says. 'The sights, the smells, making the effort and pushing yourself and getting something that's really hard to get. I'll fly on a plane and people will look out the window at thirty thousand feet and say, 'Isn't this view good enough for you?' And I say no, it's not good enough. I didn't earn it. In the mountains, I earn it.

In the Boston of my childhood, willpower was all-important. If you wanted something badly enough, you could have it. This maxim included curing yourself of paralysis.

The ones that win are the ones that ship.

In plain English, the immense investment of tax dollars in a vast government-run educational infrastructure is buying young people a poor education. The data demonstrate there is no overall correlation between the dramatic spending increases in public education during the last several decades and academic achievement.

If you shouldn't blame yourself for minor things you did or didn't do when someone dies, how can you start giving yourself credit for tiny things you did when something really good happens?

Every bestselling author was once completely unknown. A good book will eventually find its place in the world.

To be successful in an area, you have to respect the people who are successful in that area, or you are disrespecting the very thing that you want to become.

The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.

Swimming isn't everything, winning is.

I swam my brains out.

Abraham Lincoln, a predecessor of Barack Obama in both the White House and the Illinois state legislature, had eighteen months of formal education and became a soldier, surveyor, postmaster, rail-splitter, tavern keeper, and self-taught prairie lawyer. Obama went to Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School, and became a "community organizer." I'm not sure that's progress--and it's certainly not "sustainable.

There is something you have that all of the most wildly successful people in our history have also had. Twenty four hours in a day.

The difference between success and failure is effort.

Nothing in life worth doing is easy

Mark T. Sullivan

The little-me is egocentric, concerned with self-preservation and inward looking. It has a habit of being judgemental, both to self and to others. It is critical, insecure, needy, defensive and proud. The little-me is only ever secure in achievement and is therefore highly fragile and easily offended. The little-me wants to control and manage, and cannot easily let go.

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes.