Overachievement Quotes

If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

I have nothing left to prove. I've already done enough to my neck.

There's not a platinum record hanging in my house anywhere. It doesn't exist here. I'm over it. They're all in the garage, wrapped up in bubblewrap.

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

I was always an overachiever.

Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the pride and joy of their parents-should have had a strong and stable sense of self-assurance. But the case is exactly the opposite... Whenever they suddenly get the feeling they have failed to live up to some ideal image or have not measured up to some standard, then they are plagued by anxiety or deep feelings of guilt and shame. What are the reasons for such disturbances in these competent, accomplished people?

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

My whole career, I've been an underdog, I've been underestimated. Therefore, I've had a chip on my shoulder my entire career. Being drafted in the second round when you think you're supposed to be in the first round, a lottery pick, the chip grows bigger. And you have more to prove.

I am just a regular dude who happened to make it. That's all I am, man. Maybe I was preparing myself in some lifetime to become this person, but I never thought I'd have every rocket shooting off at one time.

I think I overachieved.

We've been probably to some degree too successful.

People feel that I have overachieved, but I feel that, myself, that I work tremendously hard in the gym. I feel almost I have underachieved a little bit.

They always tell me nobody's working as hard as you and even though I laugh it off man, it's probably true.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

I have always been able to rise above the expectations.

I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.

Everything that I have ever hoped to accomplish, she has done and done better than anyone I have ever seen.

Am I the Cristiano Ronaldo of Sassuolo? Maybe yes, but I'm 500 goals away.

We always thought if 'Beauty and the Beat' sold even 100,000 copies, we'd be real happy and a successful group, so when it reached a million... Hey, we just laughed about it.

My adolescent rebellions took the form of, if anything, passive aggressively doing what was asked of me but doing it ten times more than what was asked of me, so that eventually they'd have to beg me to stop.

Would you rather have an overachieving 3-Star, or an underachieving 5-Star?

Excess is success.

We were just hoping 'Prayin' for Daylight' wasn't a complete flop. Selling a million records wasn't even in our wildest thoughts.

It is better to do too much than to do too little.