Quotes About Achievement

Things are only impossible until they're not.

Things are only impossible until they are not.

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

finish the Tom Clancy

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Most people, upon reaching the top, look down and enjoy the view. The smart money is on looking up and finding new mountains to climb.

Wish for nothing so much that you forget to make it come true.

The fundamental conflict in the spiritual quest is that ego desires spiritual enlightenment, but ego can never achieve spiritual enlightenment. Self cannot achieve no-self. That's why anyone who wants to sell enlightenment must first reduce it to more manageable proportions; to something ego can achieve. Enlightenment Lite: Less demanding, feels great. Enlitenment.

Life is getting what you want, and I'm better at life than you are.

Success is rarely determined by the quality of your ideas. But it is frequently determined by the quality of your execution.

even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age four, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music. The

Reading self-help advice from other people, however well-intentioned, is no substitute for getting your own damn work done. The

Obviously we want to succeed. But on some level, success is irrelevant, because the process is inherently satisfying. Waking

It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

How do successful leaders respond when someone congratulates them on a good job? They start talking about the great team they've got working for them. How this person or that person stepped up in the effort. Or how everyone really came together to pull through. Why? Because they know what it takes to succeed. It takes a team.

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.

In fact, in its most basic form, socialism was a belief in more equitable distribution of wealth, with everyone afforded the opportunity to thrive in accordance with personal achievement regardless of race or social position.

1.?What do we want to be known FOR? 2.?What are we known FOR?

All of that leads me to this: In order to ensure consistent growth, the goal of everyone in the organization should be to make the answers to "What do we want to be known FOR?" and "What are we known FOR?" match. This is also the most important challenge for any leader.

Raquel's mother had driven her fiercely to do well in school, such that high academic prowess had been the only option. Others had come upon money by luck, or had relatives acting as patrons. Rob had had none of those things. All he'd had was a home, and a harried home at that, paired with his own drive. What he'd achieved, he'd achieved almost exclusively on his own.

Look, anything you do, if it isn't hard, it isn't doing anything for you. So you're better off not doing it. Use your time somewhere else.

Why are you here?" Rob asked. "Because we have to play a sport; it's required," Truman replied. "Okay, so play it, don't just fuck around." "I'm not fucking around." "You're not making it hard." Truman didn't know what that meant. "If you go into something, you better make it hard. Otherwise what's the point?