Quotes about Achievement

The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

Some one once said to me, 'Reverend Schuller, I hope you live to see all your dreams fulfilled.' I replied, T hope not, because if I live and all my dreams are fulfilled, I'm dead.' It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.

We grow small trying to be great.

Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.

Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.

Getting and becoming are siamese twins. If you want more than you have, you have to become more than you are.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get.