Quotes About Achievement

If people with natural gifts also possess a good work ethic and have some luck in life, envy will follow them wherever they go.

Only the weak rest on their laurels and dote on past triumphs; in the game of power there is never time to rest.

In other words, concentrated practice over time cannot fail but produce results.

We forget the role that luck may have played in the success, or the contributions of others.

Any success that we have in life inevitably depends on some good luck, timing, the contributions of others

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So even when luck has only a minor influence on performance, the most talented and hardworking of all contestants will usually be outdone by a rival who is almost as talented and hardworking but also considerably luckier.

The fact is, as the proverb says, before you can cook your rabbit you first have to catch it.

People who succeed in life are rarely reflective. Their gaze is always on the future: that's why they succeed.

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I fear there is in all men who achieve their life's ambition only a narrow line between dignity and vanity, confidence and delusion, glory and self-destruction

there is in all men who achieve their life's ambition only a narrow line between dignity and vanity, confidence and delusion, glory and self-destruction.

But if you seek power," he said, almost to himself, "and if you are a new man, this is what you have to do. Nobody is ever going to simply hand it to you.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

The achiever is usually in an internal struggle. He struggles against what he believes and what he thinks he must do to make himself feel good. The trick in our lives is to get the two together. An internal sense of worth is just as important to the healthy man as an external sense of worth. However, it takes a healthy man to realize this.

student achievement in classes with highly skilled teachers is better than student achievement in classes with less skilled teachers.

In the end, for all of us who strive to achieve, whether in business or in other walks of life, the end of life is a disappointment. The personal pleasure over a lifetime was mostly in the striving and in one's friendships and interactions. The pinnacle of achievement does not bring happiness, but at best the reflection that the striving achieved some benefit for others, unappreciative and unrelated though those others may

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.

Who would sup with the mighty must climb the path of daggers. -Anonymous notation found inked in the margin of a manuscript history (believed to date to the time of Arthur Hawkwing) of the last days of the Tovan Conclaves

You got further plucking the chicken in front of you than trying to start on one up a tree. Especially when the tree was in another country and there might not even be another chicken.

Lan Mandragoran, you bloody wonderful man! You did it! -Mat

Which cliff did you choose? Pevara sent him. What? You said that when you were among the Sea Folk, they jumped off cliffs to prove their bravery. The higher the cliff, the braver the jumper. Which cliff did you choose? The highest, he admitted. Why? I figured that once you've decided to jump off a cliff, you might as well pick the highest one. Why accept the risk, if not for the greatest prize?

I just want my father to be proud of me.

Elayne had heard of the great works performed by large circles of men and women. Every woman in the White Tower was taught of these feats from the past, stories of different days, better days. Days when one half of the One Power had not been a thing to fear, when two halves of one whole had worked together to create incredible wonders.