Quotes About Achievement

The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.

Enjoyable events occur when a person has not only met some prior expectation or satisfied a need or a desire but also gone beyond what he or she has been programmed to do and achieved something unexpected, perhaps something even unimagined before.

Enjoyment is characterized by this forward movement: by a sense of novelty, of accomplishment

It is a circuitous path that begins with achieving control over the contents of our consciousness.

If one does not use the mind to its fullest, then good feelings fulfill just a fraction of the potential we possess.

The word success is an ambiguous word. Success with respect to the outside? Or success with respect to oneself? And if it is a success with respect to the outside, then how do you evaluate it? Very often outside success is irrelevant, wrong, and misplaced. So how can one talk about it? Externally, you may think I am successful because people write about some aspects of my work. But that is an external judgment. And I have no idea as to how to value that judgment.

Flow tends to occur when a person's skills are fully involved in overcoming a challenge that is just about manageable.

It is the full involvement of flow, rather than happiness, that makes for excellence in life.

success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue...as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.

The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.

Papu Sanzgiri asked him, 'Who is going to break Brian Lara's 400?' Sehwag said, 'Please tell Sachin to do it. I cannot bat for two days. I can only bat for a day and a half.

Striving for perfection is not foolish, but assuming you have achieved it most certainly is.

Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.

KEEP YOUR JOB until your real estate investing produces far more than your job income. Once you have confidently achieved this, you should be able to have a very smooth transition into full-time real estate investing.

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

Life's adventures are only possible because of life's challenges.

Go ahead, want it all. That's what it's there for.

Move toward your dreams while you celebrate all that does work, all that you do have, and who you now are.

Never did I wake up on a morning feeling like, I made it! I'm living my dreams! Yet still, only in hindsight, I had and I was.

You signed up for the intensive program: harder in the beginning, more fun thereafter.