Effort Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 167
All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects physical performance.
Charles Garfield
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
Benjamin Franklin Fairless
You know, there's a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just to be eclipsed by the long shadow that is cast by my accomplishments.
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Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians.
Wilhelm Reich
I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.
Curtis Jackson
Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.
Willard Libby
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
Saul Bellow
Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.
Lance Armstrong
Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.
Wilma Mankiller
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
David Bly
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
Francesco Guicciardini
I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.
Virginia Wade
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
Colleen Barrett
Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.
When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible.
Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.
Atul Gawande
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
