Quotes About Achievement

pity the man who gets what he wants. And it's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

We can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Easy. Just start counting. One, two, three, four, five, six. And so on. You don't hit a letter A until you get to a hundred and one. You can even do it real fast and still get nowhere near ninety-nine inside a minute.

key. I need to move up into Duke's job. Then I'll be top boy on Beck's side. Then I'll

seen any anywhere else. So he

It's something they teach you in the army. The only thing under your direct control is how hard you work. In other words, if you really, really buckle down today, and you get the intelligence, the planning, and the execution each a hundred percent exactly correct, then you are bound to prevail." "Sounds empowering." "It's the army. What they really mean is, if you fail today, it's completely your own fault.

He left home early, as he always did, six days a week, fifty weeks a year. A cautious breakfast, appropriate to a short round man aiming to stay in shape through his forties. A long walk down the carpeted corridors of a lakeside house appropriate to a man who earned a thousand dollars on each of those three hundred days he worked. A thumb on the button of the garage-door

I'd expected four. Five was going to be harder. But more productive.

made it a perfect

I'm saying a scattergun approach will always look good, as long as you put the spotlight on the successes and sweep the failures under the rug.

Women have to work twice as hard, to get half the credit.

Three miles at a slow jog, not much better than a fast walk

after reaching the presidency I experienced a certain letdown. I had spent years climbing the mountain. When I finally made it to the top, I started to wonder why I had been in such a hurry to get there.

He sat up, his chest moving, his mouth open as if he'd run the annual San Francisco Bay to Breakers race in record time instead of, as the event intended, having fun.

Remember, only fifty words makes the difference between a rich

have captured the hearts and conquered the minds of hundreds of others who helped boost them, rung by rung, to

I will get it done this week barring any big obstacles" shows you have more assurance in your abilities.

You see, nobody gets to the top alone. Over the years, people who seem to have it all have captured the hearts and conquered the minds of hundreds of others who helped boost them, rung by rung, to the top of whatever corporate or social ladder they chose.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Stephen Hawking once told me that there was a sense in which he was glad to be paralyzed, because it allowed him to focus much more intensely on his work.

Michael Jordan once said, "I've missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I've lost almost three hundred games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

The reason is, when there is a hard problem, one has to work a long time and has to be persistent. In order to be persistent, you have got to be convinced that it's worthwhile working so hard, that you're going to get somewhere.

recent years psychologists have found that the ability to persist in the face of obstacles is at least as important a factor in success as talent.

By his own assessment, he was no genius. He had no great quickness of apprehension or wit or power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought. On the many occasions when I share those feelings, I find it encouraging to review those words because that Englishman did okay for himself—his name was Charles Darwin.