Quotes About Achievement

givers were not only among the most successful individuals

Success," Honda said, "can be achieved only through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents one percent of your work, which results only from the ninety-nine percent that is called failure.

When you're self-employed, your success is proportionate to your personal development.

Having a successful life and business requires that we first learn who we are, then do what we have to do in order to have what we want.

Foster wanted his students to fit into and excel in the mainstream—not to vindicate themselves to disapproving whites, but to claim a birthright.

Difficult situations breed astonishing results.

I know I tackled something big, new, and scary and I survived.

I swing my feet happily. "I have a non-athletic cousin who just became a pediatrician. She feels my pain.

That's what I always want: to win.

My mom went back to college when she had four kids in high school, middle school, and elementary school, and it has always been a source of pride for me. She was a teacher in her heart and needed the degree to match, so she chased the dream long before it was convenient or well-timed or easy. Yes, she fell off the oat bran wagon (kindly recall 1990) and we got store-bought prom dresses, but we watched her fly. It never occurred to us to settle for less.

I pray for your kindness more than your success, because the latter without the former is a tragedy.

Every no takes you one step closer to a yes!

Success = a series of small, consistent, loving steps.

Time wasted rationalizing the mediocre could be time spent creating the magnificent.

You are an artist and the masterpiece is your life.

You can have excuses or you can have success; you can't have both.

People who are successful are not only willing to get uncomfortable, but they know they have to make a habit of it if they want to stay successful.

Most of the time it's not lack of experience that's holding us back, but rather the lack of determination to do what we need to do to be successful.

We need kickass people to be out of struggle and living large and on purpose so they can be an inspiration to others who want to rise up, too.

Keep your thoughts directed at your goal, do everything that you DO know how to do to make it happen decide with unwavering determination that it will happen, and be on the lookout for the opportunity.

Believe, really believe, that what you desire is here and available to you. And you can have it all.

Ayn Rand: Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

How determined you are determines your outcome.

I was doing pretty well—I'd published a couple of books, had lots of great friends, a close family, an apartment, a car that ran, food, teeth, clothes, clean drinking water—compared to the majority of the planet, my life was a total cream puff. But compared to what I knew I was capable of, I was, shall we say, unimpressed.