Quotes About Achievement

Researchers find our reward systems are activated most when we achieve relative rather than absolute rewards; we're designed to feel best not when we get more, but when we get more than those around us.

We build an infinite variety of imaginary games. Groups of people gather together, agree what symbols they're going to use to mean "status," then strive to achieve it.

Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.

People view celebrities from a place of envy and inferiority. Instead of being personally inspired by their great artistry they see them in a position they could never attain

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

Make today so awesome that yesterday gets jealous!

Working behind the scenes to advance his candidacy, Hamilton seemed unfazed by the fact that virtually all other commissions were going to native New Yorkers of wealth and social position. Here was a bastard, a newcomer who had arrived as an orphaned immigrant little more than three years earlier. But he was a nova whose writing, speaking, and fighting talents had dazzled more timid men with better claims on command.

Door mijn voetstappen te tellen (...), is het me toch gelukt zonder kompas weer thuis te komen. is dat geen succes? Is dit niet het succes waarop mijn hele leven mij heeft voorbereid?

Some start in life without any leading objective at all; some with a low one; and some aim high—and just in proportion to the elevation at which they aim will be their progress and success.

Resolution is almost omnipotent. Those little words "try" and "begin" are sometimes great in their results. "I can't" never accomplished anything. "I will try" has achieved wonders.

Adversity cause some men to break others to break records.

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

If you can dream it, you can become it.

Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.

Most of us are "living the dream" living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves.

WHAT DO YOU WANT out of life?

What ailment of yours have you cured today? What failing have you resisted? Where can you show improvement?"1

Success is very much like a drug: it makes you feel good; you don't know what you are missing until you experience it; once you experience it, you want more; and in your attempts to recapture that first high, you will have to resort to ever bigger "doses." And if success is like a drug, some drugs are like success: a cocaine high, I am told, very much resembles the rush of success.

It is characteristic of modern outlook that we want quick results.

Now if my actions prosper, you shall see Your titles graced with greater estimation; Or at the least we shall no longer be Deprived of deserved reputation.

He'd shot a 136—a full ten strokes better than Conner.

Napoleon taught the world, or perhaps only satisfied a latent longing and gave it shape and hope, to want to be rewarded, visibly, definitely, let us say inorganically, for its deeds. Curiously enough, this mode of thought is even commoner among women than men ; the postulation of an infallible judge somewhere, somehow, who will examine work done and measure it exactly and register it in a stepped list of rewards.