Quotes About Achievement

Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.

Anything is possible. Everything is gettable. You just have to want it badly enough.

And so chubby, sugar-brained Jack invented exercise. He became the hero who could do a thousand jumping jacks and a thousand chin-ups in ninety minutes. The muscle that trained itself to finish 1,033 push-ups in twenty minutes by climbing a twenty-five-foot rope with 140 pounds of weight strapped to his belt.

You can have excuses or success—but not both.

The only person to ever play golf on the moon was astronaut Alan Shepard. His golf ball was never found.

Dream your dreams, but when you act, plant your feet firmly on the ground.

What is effective for increasing motivation and the willingness to take on challenges is focusing praise on the child's effort, on what the child has done, not on an ability he can't control (such as intelligence) or on the final result (which he may not easily be able to replicate).

KEY CONCEPT Superlative Praise = vague, exaggerated, and ineffective Wow, your homework is fantastic! Descriptive Praise = specific, true, and motivating You answered all the questions on this worksheet, even though you weren't sure about some of the answers. You didn't leave any blanks. You challenged yourself and wrote down something for every single question.

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

It is difficult for the average person to achieve an historical perspective in which progress shall have been reduced to its proper dimensions.

The reasons why people cannot achieve their goals are not because they lack abilities or character, but because they are setting their goals in a wrong way and trying to achieve them in a wrong way. " – Takashi Harada

Having dreams and goals helps guide people in the right direction. It helps them build great character and it eventually helps them succeed in their lives.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Obsesia premiilor semnific? o frustrare deloc stimulativ?. Crea?ia în art? fiind a solitudinii ?i originalit??ii, nu a onorurilor ?i reclamei...

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

I just wanted to do something important.

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.

Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality

When asked what his greatest life achievement was, Norman Thomas replied: "The intellectual theft of every one of my ideas by the Democratic Party."

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture.