“The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them.”
“PATH TO SUCCESS: DREAM. PLAN. DO. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. ACHIEVE! IT S A MESSY JOURNEY.”
“Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves.”
“We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with essences. The only ideals allowed are healthy ones -- those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.”
“Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.”
“When you wake up each morning with a burning passion to accomplish a goal, you ve already won the day.”
“Age is a state of mind.”
“When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they d told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else.”
“I used to want the words She tried on my tombstone. Now I want She did it. ”
“People don t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they ll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt... They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don t know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear”
“Opportunity doesn t make appointments, you have to be ready when it arrives.”
“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.”
“Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement.”
“Learn from the successful and you ll achieve what they ve achieved!”
“The ultimate measure of a person is not her mistakes or accomplishments, but what she does with them.”
“Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.”
“My personal definition of confidence is to keep believing that the stars in the solar system are actually watching and applauding you.”