Quotes about Achievement

You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

He realized that real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

our son's "socially impressive" accomplishments were more a serendipitous expression of the feelings he had about himself than merely a response to social reward.

Out of his private victories, public victories began to come.

It is said that wars are won in the general's tent. Sharpening the saw in the first three dimensions—the physical, the spiritual, and the mental—is a practice I call the "Daily Private Victory." And I commend to you the simple practice of spending one hour a day every day doing it—one hour a day for the rest of your life.

It was not the luck of being at the right moment in history that separated Bill Gates, but his proactive response to being at the right moment (Habit 1: Be Proactive).

What can you get done today, tomorrow, or next week that will bring you that much closer to your final destination? See if you can project a bit and schedule just the first three steps on your list into your planning system. The rest will come later. Then go for it! Move ahead each day with the vision of that goal in mind and keep pressing forward.

you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

Success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.

Most people see effectiveness from the golden egg paradigm: the more you produce, the more you do, the more effective you are.

If you carefully consider what you wanted to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success. It

Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field.