Quotes about Achievement

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

True self-confidence does not come from positive wishing or positive hoping or positive thinking. It comes from positive knowing based on having proven to yourself, over and over again, that you have what it takes to get from wherever you are to wherever you want to go.

THE FIRST SECRET of self-made millionaires is simple: Dream Big Dreams!

Some authors suggest that you write down and review your goals once a month, others once a week. What I learned was the power of writing and rewriting your goals every single day.

If someone is doing better than you are today, it is because they have developed a habit of thinking and acting that you have not learned. And whatever other people have learned, you can learn as well.

The only real cure for fear or worry is disciplined, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.

The ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.

Write down your goals, make plans to achieve them, and work on your plans every single day.

You must resolve, from this moment forward, to become a goal-seeking organism, like a guided missile or a homing pigeon, moving unerringly toward the goals that are important to you.

Coming from an unsuccessful background, I had developed deep feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. I had fallen into the mental trap of assuming that people who were doing better than me were actually better than me. What I learned was that this was not necessarily true. They were just doing things differently, and what they had learned to do, within reason, I could learn as well.

There is an old saying that "by the yard it's hard; but inch by inch, anything's a cinch!

What I learned was that in order to achive great success in life, you must become a special kind of person. To rise above the majority, you must develop qualities and disciplines that the average person lacks.