Quotes About Achievement

However, an American has a less than 1 percent chance of being poor if he manages to do just three things: finish high school, get and stay married, and stick with a job—even a minimum-wage job—for at least a year.1045

The larger purpose of school integration was to solve the American dilemma, but integration had three specific goals of its own: Lift black academic achievement, raise black self-esteem, and give black and white children better impressions of each other. There have now been hundreds of studies of the effects of school integration, and none of these goals has been achieved.

Joskus minua ihan nolottaa, miten edellä olen muita.

The year you were born marks only your entry into the world. Other years where you prove your worth, they are the ones worth celebrating.

What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there in that? He's a loser—that's why he's number two.

I want a billion people to know my name as well as they know their own. I want to clone myself to fame.

In high school I barely made the rodeo team. But I wasn't good enough to start, so I just rode the bench.

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

These might include the ability to form close and trusting bonds, to reach out, to initiate, to achieve, to belong to a group, to develop self-confidence, to receive help and encouragement, even to have a happy childhood.

It would be like climbing up a winding mountain where you can't really see much ahead, then finally realizing you're at the top.

In your pursuit of excellence, remember that hard work is often the remedy to feeling ordinary, incapable, and discouraged.  

Wisdom isn't taught; it's not a science. Wisdom is a tattoo carved into the mind after a lifetime of failures and achievements.

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

But the bigger point is that most non-English speakers are in weak schools no matter the language of instruction. Nationally, English-language learners drop out at about twice the average rate.

The earlier immigrants were virtually all poor, whereas nearly a third of today's are college graduates like Rosalie. More than one in eight has a graduate degree—slightly more than natives.

was able to finish my studies, to help my family members, to have a good job. . . . Now everything is complete. . . . It's more than happiness. It's joy.

Think: How many great achievements have you accomplished with little effort? Then why put less effort into the one thing you want most, which is love?

Knowing when to embrace Good Enough is what gives you the opportunity to be truly excellent when you need to be. We're not suggesting you put shit work out there. You need to be able to be proud of it, even if it's only "okay." But attempting to be indiscriminately great at everything is a foolish waste of energy.

soon you'll see that it's the work—not the clock—that matters.

If you spend 20 percent each on getting five things to 80 percent, well, then, you've done five things!

Knowing when to embrace Good Enough is what gives you the opportunity to be truly excellent when you need to be.

Because let's face it: Goals are fake. Nearly all of them are artificial targets set for the sake of setting targets. These made-up numbers then function as a source of unnecessary stress until they're either achieved or abandoned. And when that happens, you're supposed to pick new ones and start stressing again. Nothing ever stops at the quarterly win. There are four quarters to a year. Forty to a decade. Every one of them has to produce, exceed, and beat EXPECTATIONS.