2,199 Quotes About Achievement

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

Awareness makes us emotionally brilliant.

She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-slow down-don't do your best, it is not wanted!

Marginal gains is not about making small changes and hoping they fly. Rather, it is about breaking down a big problem into small parts in order to rigorously establish what works and what doesn't.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

... I will get a First Class Honors degree and I will become a scientist... And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

Achievement seems to be connectedwith action. Successful men andwomen keep moving. They makemistakes, but they don't quit.

They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did nothing to earn.