Quotes about Achievement

Because if you don't accept excuses, pretty soon people stop giving them, and they start looking for solutions. And that is a critical issue when it comes to success.

Sometimes one has to be humble enough to start at the bottom with a minimum-wage job even if you have a college degree. Once you get your foot in the door, you can prove your worth and rapidly move up the ladder. If you never get in the door, it is unlikely that you will rise to the top.

It's not what you know but the kind of job you do that makes the difference.

I'm convinced that much of the success I have experienced in life is a result of learning from my failures.

Wealthy people in the United States have created more charitable organizations and been more philanthropic than any other group in the world. We should celebrate their achievements rather than envy them.

After less than a week on campus I discovered I wan't that bright. All the students were bright; many of them extremely gifted and perceptive. Yale was a great leveler for me, because I now studied, worked, and lived with dozens of high-achieving students, and I didn't stand out among them.

Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.

If you're good, you'll be recognized. Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life.

God's words possess omnipotent achieving and accomplishing power. Our words can have potent achieving and accomplishing power.

God has reserved momentous victories and great rewards for us, but we'll never make it to our milestones if we can't make it through our moments.

We know from research that growth is actually contagious, so if you want to reach your goals, you've got to get around people that are going in the same direction you want to be going, and you will catch the success.

I am one of seven kids, number five of seven, and the first of my siblings to graduate from high school and the first to graduate from college.