Quotes About Achievement

Looking back now, it is easy to feel as if she alone knew that success and happiness in life were more elusive even than an Ivy League diploma.

Lyric's death reminded us that having a Yale degree on our résumés could open many doors, but it couldn't protect us from life, which didn't much care about résumés.

Rob's small room on the second floor of the Chapman Street house, a three-shelf bookcase was packed with black-and-white composition books, the front and back of each page filled with single-spaced notes from various classes. Tavarus thought, Damn, this is how you go places.

What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. — DR. JOYCE BROTHERS

There is nothing on earth you cannot have—once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. — Seneca

Choose words that will point you in the direction of your goals.

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations. — Ralph Charell

Choose words that will point you in the direction of your goals. — Jeff Keller

No pressure, no diamonds. — Mary Case

Merit badges are these little patches you get for learning how to do all sorts of manly stuff.

I think it's important for me to keep my childhood friends so that later on someone can appreciate how far I've come.

Chris says it's all in the doing, but to tell you the truth, there's a lot to be said for the having.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.

Successful people do whatever it takes to get the job done, whether or not they feel like it.

Instead of writing down what you're going to do (chances are you've been doing that your whole adult life anyway, and it doesn't make you any better at doing them), write down at the end of the day what you did do that day.

People on the success curve live a life of responsibility. They take full responsibility for who they are, where they are, and everything that happens to them.

Any time you see what looks like a breakthrough, it is always the end result of a long series of little things, done consistently over time.

anything worth having is worth paying that price for.

In the process of learning to walk, did you spend more time falling down or standing up? If you were anything like most babies, you failed (fell) far more than you succeeded (walked). It didn't matter: you were on the path of mastery.

Do the thing, and you shall have the power." —Ralph Waldo Emerson Essay on Compensation

Remember: success does not lead to happiness—it's the other way around.

There are three simple, essential steps to achieving a goal: Write it down: give it a what (clear description) and a when (timeline). Look at it every day: keep it in your face; soak your subconscious in it. Start with a plan: make the plan simple. The point of the plan is not that it will get you there, but that it will get you started. 17.