Personal Achievement Quotes

That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.

All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.

If you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement.

I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)

I will either find a way or make one.

It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.

Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.

Far from the richest rapper, but my biggest personal achievement thus far in my life has been retiring my mom early from her job at the Post Office. It's a tiny payback for the sacrifices she made that allowed me to chase a far-fetched dream of becoming a successful artist. I'm forever grateful.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does - now that's the highest of all personal achievements. I don't know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal.

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. If you're not clear about this, then write it down, and rewrite it until the words express precisely what you are after. Every disadvantage has an equivalent advantage - if you'll take the trouble to find it. Learn to do that and you'll kick the stuffing out of adversity every time.

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

If you can dream it, you can make it so.

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.