Achievement Quotes - Page 24

• Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, Reality, People

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.63, Diversion Books

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• If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people. You have to think exceptionally-a LOT!

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.71, Diversion Books

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• Superstars perform so naturally and so instinctively that they seem to be able to enter a pressure-packed situation that would terrify or freeze most people as if nothing matters. They let it happen, let it go. They couldn't care less about the results.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, People, Let It Go

  John Eliot (2006). “Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

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• What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, People, Mind

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.8, Diversion Books

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• Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike most people as irrationally confident, but that's how they got to the top.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, Running, Self Confidence

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• It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

  Adam Haslett

  Depression, Thinking, Negative

  Adam Haslett (2002). “You are Not a Stranger Here”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically beautiful. Muscles retreat when they're not used, but they will always come back if you give them good reason. No matter how old you get, your muscles never lose hope. Few cells of the body are as capable as muscle cells are of change and reformation, of achievement and transcendence.

  Natalie Angier

  Beautiful, Cells, Giving

  Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.

  Billie Jean King

  Attitude, Numbers, Relaxation

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from Jun 05, 2010

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• To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve... If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can`t achieve.

  Kevin Spacey

  Caring, Giving, Body

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Lying, Dark, Destiny

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2009). “Looking Forward”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

  Barbara Walters

  Boston, Kind, Accents

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life, is an achievement... To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.

  David McCullough

  Believe, Life Is, Reason

  David McCullough's Commencement Address at Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.thedailybeast.com. June 9, 2012.

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• I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here.

  Katrina Kaif

  Language, Speak, Hindi

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• It's the greatest achievement I've ever witnessed in all my years of being a coach and a television personality. I really, absolutely have been blown away.

  Dick Vitale

  Years, Personality, Television

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• My biggest achievement is that I can make a lot of people smile just by my presence, even if it's a Lux ad.

  Shahrukh Khan

  People, I Can, Ads

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• If we can't quantify and communicate our value with confidence, the achievements of the tremendous women before us will have all been for nothing.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Communicate, Ifs, Values

  Mika Brzezinski (2012). “Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth”, p.186, Weinstein Books

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• Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Sports, Home, Community

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fear is the strongest driving-force in competition. Not fear of one's opponent, but of the skill and high standard which he represents; fear, too, of not acquitting oneself well. In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

  Franz Stampfl

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

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• Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.

  Paul Henderson

  Contentment, Doe, Lord

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• A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

  Jean Helion

  Artist, Mature, Awareness

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• The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse.

  John Templeton

  Determination, Want, Way

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• Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.

  Buck Rodgers

  Leadership, Individuality, Levels

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• When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

  Edmund Burke

  Motivational, Time, Men

  Edmund Burke (1853). “The speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: with memoir and historical introductions”, p.213

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• Disagreement is a rare achievement, and most of what is called disagreement is simply confusion.

  John Courtney Murray

  Communication, Confusion, Disagreement

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• Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Envy, Hallmark

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.274, Hamilton Books

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