Quotes About High Achievers

#1. High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.

Robert H. Schuller

#2. The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.

Ronald Reagan

#3. With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of achievers. I compared what Id actually achieved in my life with what I would like to achieve and what other people have achieved, and I found that comparison depressing.

Jared Diamond

#4. Darkness descends to eclipse the Light
Death will take the lives of many, sparing no one.
In deaths of the Doomed, Light shimmers:
The Light that will set the Beholder free.

Ivan Amberlake

#5. I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

Loretta Young

#6. I loved Jordan. He was one of the greatest athletes of our time.

Mariah Carey

#7. The Hollywood image of the movie business is all about ambition and high achievers like James Cameron. But the British film industry is much more about men who wear cravats and work with model trains and hope another series of 'Thomas the Tank Engine' will be commissioned.

Peter Capaldi

#8. High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.

Guy Kawasaki

#9. People with high self esteem are risk takers, but more importantly, they are achievers.

Rick Pitino

#10. You can't work hard if you always think that high achievers possess magical powers

Respicius Rwehumbiza

#11. If he has love, he will feel he can go on. Without it, I would have sunk many times over.

Jojo Moyes

#12. With all your heart, reach out to your divine-dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. The high achievers will do anything to fulfil their dreams, to reach their goals and to accomplish their missions. They are willing to run as much as they can, to walk as much as they can or to crawl as much as they can. They are full of determination.

Euginia Herlihy

#14. A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors.

Margaret Heffernan

#15. High achievers are motivated by pleasurable outcomes. Underachievers are motivated by pleasurable methods.

Tommy Newberry

#16. Behold thine immortal Self resurrected with Christ in the illuminating Light of Christ Consciousness, present in every soul, every flower, every atom.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#17. I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, however, end up allocating their resources in a way that seriously undermines their intended strategy.

Clayton Christensen

#18. Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

Nick Saban

#19. After a few months of talking with people and observing them, I realized that the traits of the successful fitness enthusiasts had everything in common with those of the high achievers I had spent years studying in business.

Chalene Johnson

#20. I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

Elliott Erwitt

#21. One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.

Hank Haney

#22. High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.

John Eliot

#23. One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.

Brian Tracy

#24. Average achievers believe that learning ends after high school and college; top achievers believe that's when it starts.

Andrea Waltz

#25. High achievers don't like mediocre people, mediocre people don't like high achievers.

Nick Saban

#26. In high school, people are sometimes encouraged to be like everyone else. What's so great about this show is that these kids are weird and different and over-achievers. They know what they want and they're going after it. They're weird and they don't deny it. That's what makes it special.

Sarah Steele

#27. I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception.

Willie Aames

#28. A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not always the usual suspects either, the high achievers.

Matt De La Pena

#29. High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others.

Nancy Gibbs