Quotes About Achievement

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true." Napoleon Hill

No woman (or man) becomes a corporate manager, gets tenure at a university, or is elected to public office by showing their capacity for cooperation, sharing, emotional sensitivity, and nurturing.

Happiness, for Rand, is not mere pleasure or desire-satisfaction. It is that state of "non-contradictory joy" (Atlas 1022) that is the concomitant of achieving what one has rationally identified as objectively good.

The chances of achieving literary performance are, to the decimal point, the odds against becoming fully human. That means one hundred and fifty million to one. Which means one hundred and fifty million in one.

Women are to be conquered, subdued, the way a mountaineer conquers a peak or a matador slays a bull.

Never take no for the anwser when reaching for your dreams.

Some folks is meant to make excuses. Some folks is meant to make history.

Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.

Talent and intelligence, not to mention tireless hard work, got lab scientists through the door, but—this was the dirty secret—you needed luck.

Yall have to show me the fool who says dreams don't come true cause they do I LOVE YOU PHILIDELPHIA

The sky is not the limit — the ground is.

Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.

A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.

This is the natural next step for you. Or are you going to be satisfied running around the country solving crimes like Nancy Drew on steroids?

figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one. —Calamity Jane

Without struggle there is no progress.

I don't play any game that I can't win.

Knock 'em dead!" I was already inside when Liz yelled after me, "But not literally!

He didn't need to find a way into the Gallagher Academy, he told himself. He'd be walking through the front doors soon enough.

Pero el éxito era una receta poco compatible con el autoengaño.

Your potential remains useless unless utilized.

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke winning it twice proves you are the best.