Quotes About Achievement

La victoria aclara ideas y borra muchas indecisiones en la mente de la mayoría de los hombres.

prize isn't worth the arrow

Yet to achieve greatly, a man must believe something. Belief and knowledge pave the road to greatness. Knowledge is perhaps the most valuable of all. We all seek the coin of knowledge.

No masterwork comes without a price, he thought. That doesn't mean it's not worth forging.

Who would sup with the mighty must climb the path of daggers.

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out where the strong man stumbled, nor where the doer of deeds could have done them better. "On the contrary, the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena—whose vision is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up again and again; who knows the great devotions, the great enthusiasms; who at best knows in the end the triumph of his achievement. "However

Viewed one way, then, for at least five years between 1904 and 1909, Ramanujan floundered- mostly out of school, without a degree, without contact with other mathematicians. And yet, was the cup half-empty or half-full?

Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.

Choice, not circumstances, determines your success.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

only way to see what really mattered in life was to go to the places that were hardest to reach.

the only way to see what really mattered in life was to go to the places that were hardest to reach.

and when he sat against trees to catch his breath he marveled at how full life felt when a person got to be excellent

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Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average.

Give me enough medals and I'll win you any war.

He'd no longer be a grade-motivated person. He'd be a knowledge-motivated person.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

Overall goals must be scaled down in importance and immediate goals must be scaled up.

She was lionized, canonized, Nobel Prized (and was wonderfully inspirational, as disinterested in acclaim as in her ostracism, working until her nineties).

Success in everything from athletics to chess to the stock market boosts testosterone levels.

We often rush when we should plod, forgetting that we usually accomplish more by persisting than by hurrying.

I am not ashamed that I was once a vacuum-cleaner salesman, only that I was a *good* vacuum-cleaner salesman.

I dont believe in the Devil, but if I did I should think of him as the trainer who drives Heaven to break its own records.