Quotes About Achievement

[The] biggest mistake in helping undeserved kids is not raising the bar high enough. Children will believe if you believe in them.

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point

Achievement is not always success while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage, true success follows every right step.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

No man fails who does his best.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.

The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.

There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.