Quotes About Achievement

Write your dreams down; make them vivid and specific; give them a concrete timeline for realization;

The power of momentum: steady wins the race. The power of completion: clear out your undones and incompletes. The power of reflection: facing the man or woman in the mirror. The power of celebration: catch yourself doing something right.

evaluate if we've built what we envisioned at the quality level we hoped for and in the timeframe we planned. Do this in a team product review and reflection.

Everyone loves a success story," says Newton. "And once you succeed, everyone loves tearing you down.

College? Who needed college. Kobe Bryant had decided to take his talents to the NBA.

It was said that trials were what made the victory so sweet, but Herbert never bought that. From where he sat, he'd settle for having the victories come a little easier now and then. . . .

The real achievement of faith-based initiatives was not to launch flashy programs or even to buy votes for Republicans; it was to open the door for religious groups to the whole treasure house of federal social-services funding, tens of billions of dollars.

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

Don't undervalue things that come easy. Sometimes they're the things that would be the hardest for someone else to do and often they are the things that would be almost impossible to do when you try too hard.

Maybe it's a cliché, but you have to focus on verbs over nouns -- what you want to do, not what you want to be.

you're going to find people from all over the country, everyone hungry for money and position. You won't make a name for yourself just doing what the next man does. You'll have to distinguish yourself in some way.

I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being.

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

Other adults abused as children do the opposite: they believe they can accomplish nothing, so they don't try. They hold themselves back from taking chances because it is safer. Since success often makes one more important and visible to others, and since visibility is associated with being hurt, success means danger.

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

Are we all destined to die as failures? Just

What I'm telling you is, productivity is meaningless unless you know what your goal is," he says.

productivity is the act of bringing a company closer to its goal. Every action that brings a company closer to its goal is productive. Every action that does not bring a company closer to its goal is not productive.

We live but a short time, at the longest. How do we make our lives mean something? If we die in glory, with our minds and our hearts fixed on achieving a great goal, we have lived a life that mattered.

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I see where all this success has led me. Now I want to see what it's kept me from.

progress he'd made. Advance to Boardwalk. He couldn't help it; he started whistling.

People talk about how sad it would be to die before they've done everything they want to do or seen everything they want to see. But I think it would be worse to live life and have there be nothing left that you want to see or do.

God's purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year.