A positive mind-set says that you are not a victim to the whims of others or by circumstances over which you have no control.

No matter how you choose to act, that is the person you will become.

… 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...

Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.

True success is a silence inner process that can empower the mind, heart and soul through strong aspiration for great achievement.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

Passing the 7 million milestone was a tremendous achievement for our state’s visitor industry, and we are also pleased to achieve an all-time high of $11.5 billion in expenditures. These milestones reflect the quality and...

Each person has the potential to be good and productive, yet I also know that many people never begin to tap their true potential. It is human nature to surrender to the lowest common denominator....

The joy that we cause in the heart of GOD is the only worthwhile achievement.

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.

Receiving this prestigious award is a fantastic achievement and a credit to all involved with the club.

When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and...

The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever...

Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that’s something we should continue doing.

A person who does not get attached to anything, and never forgets to do his duty, will achieve everything.

To ask, ‘How do you do it?’ is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a ‘how’ if there is a big enough ‘why’.

If thousand people say you can’t, and you alone believe you can, you will make it happen! But if million people say you can, and you alone believe you can’t, you can’t make it happen....

I have discovered fallen trees across my path and have possessed neither the strength to move them nor the patience or tenacity to find an alternative way round. I have simply returned to where I...

If you honestly know how you help people, then you should become passionate about sharing it, spread the good news, give everyone a chance to share in the solutions that you can provide.

A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through different levels of society is akin to stepping through different rooms...

Seek and achieve “GREATNESS” instead of mere success

A bit of research can save you hours, days of time correcting mistakes that you never had to make in the first place.

I like working among ‘creative clutter’. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.

Best tool to win hearts is “respect”.

You can actually overcome all the limitations of life and achieve your dreams, if you don’t give up too early.

You must understand something. Money is not a sign of achievement.

Steam in an open space would just simply scatter in different directions. Steam contained in an engine can move a whole train. Success comes from One-pointedness and Constancy of Aim and Effort.

The Swimmer’s Advantage:1)The goal is measured first by seeing; The distance is accomplished by the strategy of believing that the same set of repetitious acts will get them there.2)Even when the elements around you are...

Stand tall on the summit after a tedious climb. Take in the remarkable scenery and the exhilaration of accomplishment. But don’t pause for long; there are greater mountains to climb while you still possess the...

Discipline transforms the gifted to the great.

Keep your focus on the things you can actually control. Choosing to center on anything else will either stop you in your tracks or significantly slow you down.

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.

I think it says that Seattle is making a tremendous effort in trying to close the achievement gap between minority students and white students.

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

Stop talking, start DO-ing.

The reason most people give up so fast is that they look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.

Achievements – Dreams= Action; Achievements-Actions= Dreams; Achievement= Dreams+Action

Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving.

When the fear of failure triumphs over the repugnance of mediocrity, we must resign ourselves to the status quo. Every change, every opportunity to do something different will send us running to hide beneath a...

My intention was, only, ever to help you see the light shining brightly in front, and inside, of you.

The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price.

Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn’t happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.

It is today that tells you if you learned from yesterday, and if tomorrow is possible.

On your journey to achievement, you should never be without good positive materials and people who will encourage you, excite you and give you a reason to move forward.

He had a sense—honed by experience—that what he’d contrived might achieve something of the effect he wanted. That, Martinius had always said, was the best any man in this fallible world could expect. [p. 67]

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.

The Audacity of Achievement:Engage your effort to be faithful to your finish. Go the distance. Stay with it until the end, committed to completion!Go ahead and give birth to your bodacious ideas.

Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony and his soul full of gratitude. He felt much as an astronomer feels...

Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.

Do not allow your thoughts of what was to steal what can be.