Quotes About Achievement

They turn nature into an achievement course, a series of ordeals and obstacles they can conquer. They go into nature to behave unnaturally. In nature animals flee cold and seek warmth and comfort. But Bobo naturalists flee comfort and seek cold and deprivation.

The meritocracy defines "community" as a mass of talented individuals competing with one another.

The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.

In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.

wonderful people are made, not born – that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable inner virtue, built slowly from specific moral and spiritual accomplishments.

The people we admire the most are rooted in nature, but have surpassed nature.

Joy is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes.

Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College students who report that they finish whatever they begin have higher grades than their peers, even ones with higher SATs.

That came from his tapes. We questioned everything we did. He instilled or reinforced in us quality consciousness. If you're going to do something, you have to absolutely achieve excellence and set your internal compass toward excellence and go for that, because nothing else matters." The process, though, could be rough.

So if you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

And in all cases I have been pleasantly shocked to discover that by lowering my standards not only do I feel better about what I do but I tend to do it more effectively.

No matter how much he accomplished he would always raise his standards slightly higher, and then he'd feel miserable.

Learn to swim, and then swim. -John Lennon when asked, "What's the meaning of life?

Someone asked a concert violinist in New York's Carnegie Hall how she became so skilled. She said that it was by "planned neglect." She planned to neglect everything that was not related to her goal.

Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen.

To the extent I am good at anything other than falling down, it is getting back up, at overcoming low expectations—many of them my own—to do things I didn't think I was capable of.

I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.

When you focus, you can achieve anything. If you have no focus, you will achieve nothing.

Its not how you start your life its how you finish it

And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.

You learn more by reading more. I'm living proof that the more you learn, the more you earn.

Sade's ultimate achievement was to make sex the choicest expression of obscene cruelty and absolute, despotic power.

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

I'm lucky, today and every day I'm alive. I still have time to get things done, to enjoy the gift of life, and to do something with it, to make a significant contribution." I say