True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.
Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.
I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.
And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.
I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.
The enemy often tries to make us attempt and start many projects so that we will be overwhelmed with too many tasks, and therefore achieve nothing and leave everything unfinished. Sometimes he even suggests the wish to undertake some excellent work that he foresees we will never accomplish. This is to distract us from the prosecution of some less excellent work that we would have easily completed. He does not care how many plans and beginnings we make, provided nothing is finished.
To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield more accurate self-appraisal than using the accomplishments of dissimilar peers
If you don't feel something strongly you're not going to achieve.
It is not our ability that limits us but our viewbelief of what we can achieve.
I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.
The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.
Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost anything at all, a cornstalk, or a giant redwood, or a flight across the ocean. Whatever a man imagines, he can achieve.
A downtrodden class. . . will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.
I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.
My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.
In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.
We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
Goal-setting is powerful because it provides focus. It shapes our dreams. It gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life.