Quotes About Achievement

Come out of the don'ts and impossibles. Manifest your dream. Bloom your worth.

Kanai, the dreamers have everyone to speak for them,' she said, 'But those who try to be strong, who try to build things - no one ever sees any poetry in that, do they?

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Success is sweeter and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.

God says to us "Some things won't get done unless you do them.

What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it[...] Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America. Once a child starts to excel at something—whether it's math, piano, pitching or ballet—he or she gets praise, admiration and satisfaction. This builds confidence and makes the once not-fun activity fun.

Other studies indicate that compared to Western parents, Chinese parents spend approximately ten times as long every day drilling academic activities with their children. By contrast, Western kids are more likely to participate in sports teams. This

What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. To get good at anything you have to work, and

For most Americans, especially now, striving and insecurity are likely to be rewarded with more striving and insecurity; you can do everything right and still have little to show for it.

Writers, naturally, dream of becoming authors. Authors dream of writing a bestseller. Bestselling authors want to write more bestsellers. And everyone hopes for big prizes. Why? Because we believe in magic." Publisher's Weekly magazine, Dec. 12, 2011

It's fun when you have a project. You have an idea for something you want to do, and then think about how you want to do it. It takes a lot of planning. I know it's hard work. And I'm so proud of you for trying.

For Kelly #6, his latest, that Seth had recorded with an entire orchestra behind him—and apparently, had sold and was touring to promote, for money, because Seth kept sending that too.

He was pulling Bs in his classes, because that was what you got when you weren't really trying,

was daylight at the end of the tunnel. A long, lifetime of a tunnel, into the best, most glorious day.

You don't have to be half-naked to be successful. Just be talented.

The report also said I show great potential as an agent. I figure they must be right, since I successfully broke into a safe to find that out.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

He was like Tennessee Williams, shooting three bull's-eyes in a row, all with his blind eye.

I would rather have a Hemingwayesque failure than a Juhaszian success.

Some men,' they said, `are born princes, and some raise themselves by their talents to be kings among men.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

You can become rich easily but it's quite hard to become bourgeois

The will to live, gives you the strength to surpass your own to achieve life