Quotes About Achievement

Quit? Quit? We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities, because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment. When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in

Confidence is what happens when you've done the hard work that entitles you to succeed.

Very few people discover their talent while snoring in a hammock. The harder you work and the more you demand of yourself, the more talent and ability you will discover. Hard work reveals talent.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you'll succeed.

Damn it, Mercy." He didn't like to swear in front of women. I always counted it a personal triumph when I could make him do it.

My French friend tells me that someday, if I work at it, I may no longer be flattering myself when I say I can speak a very little French.

If it weren't for his tendency to get bored with easy stuff, he'd never have hired me. Then I'd have had to take my liberal arts degree and gotten a job at McDonald's or Burger King like all the rest of the history majors.

Your importance is not in a title, it is in the excellence of your actions.

He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.

In fact, "talent" is as common as mud; what's rare is the motivation to sit down and actually do something with one's talent, the discipline to do it regularly, and the persistence to stick with it until it's finished.

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

In a widely cited piece titled "The Middle-Class Black's burden," Ms. McClain laments, "I am not comfortably middle class; I am uncomfortably middle class. I have made it, but where?

It was now, the day I had been dreaming about for so long. No longer a dream but real. Not to be wasted but to be lived.

Simply to end ure," she says, "is to triumph.

Simply to endure is to triumph.

Patricia McLinn

Patricia Morrisroe

We made it," said Joe. "It just hits me now.

You're going to be something, you and that language you speak on paper.

Right here at our doorstep, we'll have the most beautiful bridge in the world.

Perfect is close enough.

If you make something your life's work, make sure it's something you can feel proud of when you're an old relic like me.

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

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