Quotes about Achievement

Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

This synthesis of God and the world is a divine idea, which is older and more deeply hidden than all things and for which everything else remains simply an approach, a means of achievement.64

When he thought he was doing something that made a difference to people, he could bear any burden [Moses]. When he lost that sense of achievement, he became too discouraged to keep on doing the hard things.

True success consists not in becoming the person you dreamed of being when you were young, but in becoming the person you were meant to be, the person you are capable of being when you are at your best.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

The 'C' students run the world.

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

That feeling of being the NBA Champion is really unparalleled, because you're the best in the world. Without question. How many people can say that in any profession?

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

I grew up in a family in which no male upstream from me had ever finished high school, much less gone to college. But I was taught that even though there was nothing I could do about what was behind me, I could change everything about what was in front of me. My working poor parents told me that I could do better.

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.