Quotes About Achievement

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

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Certainly the prefrontal cortex is an important thing; I'm as proud of mine as the next guy.

Why was it given to Darwin, less ambitious, less imaginative, and less learned than many of his colleagues, to discover the theory sought after by others so assiduously? How did it come about that one so limited intellectually and insensitive culturally should have devised a theory so massive in structure and sweeping in significance?

In sum: you can best achieve success at meditation by not pursuing success, and achieving this success may mean caring less about success, at least as success is conventionally defined.

status is a resource.39 If status expands your access to food or sex, then it makes sense to seek status in the abstract, just as it makes sense to seek money even though you can't eat it.

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

Used in a personal sense, the phrase 'achieve an end' seemed to her a small-minded snare. She preferred the word life , and, on rare occasions, happiness .

Para nosotros el triunfo es la muerte del intelecto y de la imaginación. Nunca fuimos leales a los triunfadores.

Excess is success.

Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.

Que me importa lo que hizo Maradona con su vida. Me importa lo que hizo con la mía.

Be the star of your own life.

If you were a human sperm, there is no prize for coming second.

I'm sorry, but I have this fear that someday you're going to wake up a dried-out, bitter old hag with plenty of science awards but no personal life whatsoever. And you'll sit there at night and sob about how you've wasted your life.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion,' 

I think the best people, the ones who have reached the highest plateaus as human beings, are those who have known a great deal of adversity and have dealt with it and then moved ahead.

How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's life, and it becomes even rarer once one has a child.

Be now what you must be to succeed at the end of your journey, and when the end comes, you will find it is just another beginning.' Althea

For too many, when they get their dream, they discover it is not what they wanted. Or the dream is bigger than their abilities, and all ends in bitterness.

When circumstances are right, unlikely people do extraordinary things.

The shortest distance between a man and his goal was often a lie