Quotes About Achievement

Having the right to happiness means having the right to earn it, not having it given to you without effort and action on your part.

The Christopher Columbus Aware: This award goes to those who, like good old Chris, when they set out to do something, don't know where they are going; neither do they know how to get there. When they arrive, they don't know where they are, and when they return, they don't know where they've been.

The appointments secretary had taken Kilduff by the arm and pointed to the broad back of Lyndon Johnson. "He's got what he wants now,

High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game.

Droga do chwa?y zaczyna si? od jednego kroku. Podobnie jak droga na szafot.

Don't worry about a lost finger," Darnak said gently. "Many an adventurer has lost a finger, or worse, and still gone on to accomplish great things. Have you heard the song of . . . I forget his name. The little guy with nine fingers, from the middle continent. The one involved with that ring business a while back.

Another problem with concentrating on money and power as a mission and purpose is that you're scorekeeping, and scorekeeping means you're thinking about results over which you have no real control.

It's too easy to sell or not sell fifty widgets this week, or to sign or fail to sign the contract with your supplier. It's much more difficult to behave and act at all times in a disciplined, systematic way. But this is what you must do in order to achieve what you're capable of.

Goals you can control, objectives you cannot. By following your behavioral goals, you get to your objectives.

By following your valid goals you obtain your objective. By obtaining your objective you further your mission and purpose. At all times you set goals and objectives that are as valid as the mission and purpose they serve.

Determined people working together can do anything.

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.

The good-to-great leaders never wanted to become larger-than-life heroes. They never aspired to be put on a pedestal or become unreachable icons. They were seemingly ordinary people quietly producing extraordinary results.

Visionary companies are so clear about what they stand for and what they're trying to achieve that they simply don't have room for those unwilling or unable to fit their exacting standards.

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the dream dissapears.

Kids with parents who are less concerned about their flunking and more concerned about giving their kids an opportunity to think about flunking develop kids who think and rarely flunk. Their parents aren't going to worry about it, so they'd better.

It's not how you start that's important, but how you finish!

Sometimes people that are standing on third base think they hit a triple. But they didn't.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

I didn't get my degree at NYU I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

Being a leader on a quest to amp up your company's culture might be one of the hardest things you will ever do, but the journey is so worth it. It can be life-changing.