Quotes About Achievement

Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.

I've finished that chapel I was painting. The Pope is quite satisfied.

I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my mantra. I assumed it was a pearl of wisdom from some great thinker, a philosopher perhaps, like Descartes. It turned out to be Walt Disney, which in no way diminishes the wisdom of the advice. Anyone who can build a Magic Kingdom deserves to be listened to.

Victory! Catherine wanted to pull the front of her top over her head and run around the office making V-signs. Of course she wouldn't do that

I work my hardest at everything. That's just achieving, not overachieving.

Hockey has too many rules if you ask me. If I didn't love the game so much, I wouldn't be here. They make you remember everything. Equipment, penalties, strategies, you name it. But I guess that's partly why it's so much fun; it's not easy, you know? So you feel awesome when you do really great.

Gary Ladd's Pathways Project is a long-term study of the various influences on children's early and continuing educational progress. This longitudinal study of children from kindergarten through middle school examines aspects of family and school that affect children's academic success. Results indicate that when children have difficulty with their peer group at school, they perform less well on measures of learning and achievement.9

Look at Rose Bertin. From an ordinary seamstress to the milliner

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

So I've got to find a mountiain that nobody's ever seen. And work out the answer to a riddle that nobody's ever solved. And kill a bear that nobody can fight." Renn sucked in her breath. "You've go to try."

Je hebt al zoveel gedaan. - Torak, tegen Renn

Tot zijn verbazing schoot Renn een pijl af, en even later plofte een sneeuwhoen op het mos neer. Toraks mond viel open. 'Hoe deed je dat?' Renn bloosde. 'Nou ja, ik oefen veel.' 'Maar... Ik heb nog nooit iemand zo goed zien schieten. Ben je de beste schutter van je stam?' Ze keek niet erg op haar gemak. 'Is er iemand die beter is?' 'Eh, niet echt.

The value of a good education has never left me.

Everybody ain't happy for your success, but you don't let their feelings rob you of your happiness.

Dr. Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, concludes, "Your grades in school, your scores on the SAT, mean less for life success than your capacity to co-operate, your ability to regulate your emotions, your capacity to delay your gratification, and your capacity to focus your attention. Those skills are far more important—all the data indicate—for life success than your IQ or your grades.

It seems that the one characteristic most closely correlated with success in life, which has persisted over the decades, is the ability to delay gratification.

I felt that all my previous life had reached a climax in these hours of intense struggle against nature… in those minutes at 26,000 feet on K2, I reached depths of feeling which I can never reach again.

in true mountaineering, the summit is not everything, it is only part.16