Achievement Quotes - Page 10

Every great thing that's ever been achieved started with the belief that it could be.

The obstacles were intended to be a distraction from the goal.You must keep a persistence focus to realise the goal.

I don't enjoy talking about what I am going to do. I prefer just letting folks just find out what I've done.

So often we quit on the first failure. We must persistent long enough to achieve success.

I have leveled with the girls - from Anchorage to Amarillo.I tell them that all marriages are happyIt's the living together afterward that's tough.I tell them that a good marriage is not a gift,It's an achievement.that marriage is not for kids It takes guts and maturity.It separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls.I tell them that marriage is tested dily by the ability to compromise.Its survival can depend on being smart enough to know what's worth fighting about.Or making an issue of or even mentioning.Marriage is giving - and more important, it's forgiving.And it is almost always the wife who must do these things.Then, as if that were not enough, she must be willing to forget what she forgave.Often that is the hardest part.Oh, I have leveled all right.If they don't get my message, Buster,It's because they don't want to get it.Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocalsBecause nobody wants to red the small print in dreams.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.

The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?

Do not empower your negative thoughts by giving them “legs” so they can run around your mind, creating worries,frustrations, and anxiety in your life.

If you leave your dreams on your pillow, you might as well just stay in bed. To make dreams come true you’ve got to get up and take action.

There are no keys to success - only tools.

Trust me. In a very short time, you will become sought out by those in your network. Initially for your sound advice, but soon after as a provider of service. Few people seek advice about a subject that doesn’t require a solution.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in. One success is inherited, and the the next one is earned. While the last one is self-sought, self-served, and happens on its own terms.

I intend to achieve my goals during my lifetime, but if I fail, I will not rest even in the afterlife

A society where feminine beauty is defined not by the human self on genuine intellectual and sentimental grounds, but by a computer software on the grounds of economic interest, is more dead than alive. It is a society of human bodies, not human beings.

Put some action on your good intentions!

Schools themselves aren't creating the opportunity gap: the gap is already large by the time children enter kindergarten and does not grow as children progress through school. The gaps in cognitive achievement by level of maternal education that we observe at age 18-powerful predictors of who goes to college and who does not - are mostly present at age 6when children enter school. Schooling plays only a minor role in alleviating or creating test score gaps.

The human worker will go the way of the horse.

Self -developments helps you to set and achieve goals

Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?

...no matter how much Theo achieves and acquires and out-dazzles everyone else, she never seems content. She's taught you that people who shine more lavishly that everyone else seem to be penalized by discontent, as if they're being punished for craving a brighter life. I've been knocked down so many times I can't remember the number plates, she said once.

Awareness makes us emotionally brilliant.

Never let anyone tell you that you can't achieve your goals.

It's the whole not the detail that matters.

Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.

Portia remembered her interview in the small office upstairs...in which she had been so shy, so terrified about not being good enough, not getting this thing, this chance, which she had only just discovered she wanted very badly.

Faith is a process in action. It cannot exist without work.

Achieving your goals depends more on the way you manage to push through the bad days, than shine on the good ones.

Every time someone tells me I can't do something the more I want to do it, not to prove them wrong but because I always knew I could do it.

Faith moves mountains but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Best tool to win hearts is "respect".

It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.

We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.

Some birds learn how to fly only after falling off of a cliff.

When efforts that are wisely executed, the situation and condition don't affect the performance.

Good is not good, where better is expected.

Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn't happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.

Greatness is never achieved in the realm of dreams but in the realm of reality and the only way to achieving that greatness is to convert your time into added value to yourself and then to others.

Only with grace, can we reach the goal.

Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you.

Don't be too obvious about it.

Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

Do not listen to a single soul, but your own inner voice. Foster your will and make it as wild as possible. Dive deep into the mysterious fathoms of the universe and accomplish your purpose by hook or by crook, even if it means going down to the bottom of the ocean to meet your doom.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.

A bird does not achieve its highest potential inside its shell.

Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

Remember, for there to be any change in your life circumstances, you must change. You must improve yourself. You must develop your mind. You must change your company. If you want to fly like the eagles, then you have to make friends with the Eagles and not with chickens. You can’t be in the company of chickens and hope to fly like the Eagles someday. Life does not work that way.

In graduate school, early on, I once overheard a classmate talking in her office as I walked by. She didn't know I was there. She was gossiping about me to a group of our classmates & said I was the affirmative-action student...Rationally, I know it was absurd, but hearing how she & maybe others saw me hurt real bad...I stopped joking about being a slacker. I tripled the number of projects I was involved with. I was excellent most of the time. I fell short some of the time. I made sure I got good grades. I made sure my comprehensive exams were solid. I wrote conference proposals & had them accepted. I published. I designed an overly ambitious research project for my dissertation that kind of made me want to die. No matter what I did, I heard that girl, that girl who had accomplished a fraction of a fraction of what I had, telling a group of our peers I was the one who did not deserve to be in our program.

In order to attain extraordinary greatness, first you need to be drowned in the deepest fathoms of helplessness, misery and heartache.

The female brain itself is a highly intuitive emotion-processing machine, which when put to practice in the progress of the society, would do much more than any man can with all his analytical perspectives.

Do all the work you can, while you can.

The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.

All what you have to do is to accept, to be bold and open to the world and the world will open it's gates for you.