Quotes About Achievement

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

Elisabeth Elliot is more precise when she explains that "freedom and discipline have come to be regarded as mutually exclusive, when in fact freedom is not at all the opposite, but the final reward, of discipline.

Freedom through discipline is the idea behind what has become known as "the ten-thousand-hour rule."[9]

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be."[5]

He lost himself in visions of work to be done, that always remained to be done.

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

It's always good to be underestimated.

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

The best thing I've ever done? Well, I've created four beautiful children. You mean, other than that?

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people—I categorize them as life's losers—who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves.

Remember There's No Such Thing As An Unrealistic Goal – Just Unrealistic Time Frames

I like to think of the word FOCUS as Follow One Course Until Successful.

If the desired system state is good education, measuring that goal by the amount

You're not born with a walk like that. You have to earn it.

Turn your midlife crisis into your crowning achievement.

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

Donna VanLiere's "A Christmas Blessing" "Don't ever take your EYES off the FINISH line. If you take your eyes off the GOAL, you'll never make it to the END.

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

I think that every single person should play sports.

And without belief, dreams don't manifest into tangible reality.

You Deserve Success "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Those who don't have goals are forever doomed to work for those who do," author