Quotes About Achievement

The most important specialized skills are sales and marketing. The ability to sell—to communicate to another human being, be it a customer, employee, boss, spouse, or child—is the base skill of personal success.

I have advanced degrees from prestigious schools. What does Mike's dad have?" I paused and replied quietly, "Money, and free time.

So dream big daring dreams, and then underachieve a little bit each day. I recommend setting attainable daily goals that, when achieved, provide positive reinforcement to help you stay on the path to the big goal

All you have to do is do what needs to be done with the gifts you have been given.

Of all the steps, self-discipline may be the most difficult to master if it's not part of your makeup. But personal self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the poor, and the middle class.

Once your passive and portfolio income exceed your expenses, the ratio would be one or higher, and you would be out of the Rat Race.

So what can poor parents tell their child about money? They simply say, "Stay in school and study hard.

Everything that's worth having is some trouble…

Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it…

Nothing worth while is every easy come by.

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

At life's banquet of success I may not be the guest of honor, but I'll be among those present.

Everything that's worth having is some trouble - Anne Shirley

On Monday I received a letter from Golden Days, a Philadelphia juvenile, accepting a short story I had sent there and enclosing a cheque for five dollars. It was the first money my pen had ever earned; I did not squander it in riotous living, neither did I invest it in necessary boots and gloves. I went up town and bought five volumes of poetry with it -- Tennyson, Byron, Milton, Longfellow, Whittier. I wanted something I could keep for ever in memory of having arrived.

There's a kind of failure that's the best success

just one little seam after another and you never seem to be getting anywhere.

Più una cosa è difficile da ottenere, maggiore è la soddisfazione che provi quando ce la fai.

I've done my best and I begin to understand what is meant by the 'joy of the strife.' Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.

You will go far beyond what I have done - you can create - I can only build with the materials others have made. But we builders have our place - we can make temples for our gods and goddesses if nothing else.

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Hayallerinizin gerçekleÅŸmesi harika bir ÅŸey deÄŸil mi?

It seemed an hour to her before Diana came rushing along the hall and burst into the room without even knocking, so great was her excitement. "Anne, you've passed," she cried, "passed the very first—you and Gilbert both—you're ties—but your name is first. Oh, I'm so proud!

You did just splendidly, Anne," puffed Diana, recovering sufficiently to sit up and speak, for Anne, starry eyed and rapt, had not uttered a word.