Overachiever Quotes

• The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Talking, Literature, Attractive

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.199, Vintage

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• I was always an overachiever.

  Donna Rice Hughes

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• I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

  Madonna Ciccone

  World, Approval

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• To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer.

  Dabo Swinney

  Motivational, Success, Believe

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• I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

  John Legend

  Kings, Silly, School

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2006.

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• What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, People, Achievement

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.8, Diversion Books

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• Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.

  T. D. Jakes

  Insecure, Poison, Needs

  T.D. Jakes (2007). “Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.

  John Eliot

  Thinking, Achievement

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• No one is an overachiever. How can you rise above your level of competency? Everyone is an underachiever to different degrees. The harder you work, the more luck you will have.

  John Wooden

  Luck, Degrees, Different

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• If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Looks, Way, Painful

  Source: www.procuniarworkshop.com

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• I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history's greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even before he signed the Declaration of Independence once lamented about humility, "I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue."

  John Eliot

  Humility, Men, Reality

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• I can be a bit of an overachiever and always dance that line of balance between giving myself to work versus giving time to myself and loved ones.

  Kathryn Budig

  Giving, Balance, Lines

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• He's probably the hardest-working guy I've been around who has great ability. Overachievers work hard because they have to. Peyton has rare talent, but chooses to push himself like he doesn't.

  Tony Dungy

  Hard Work, Guy, Talent

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• Whoever's job it was to keep the room clean was clearly not an overachiever.

  Steve Hamilton

  Jobs, Rooms, Clean

  Steve Hamilton (2007). “Winter of the Wolf Moon: An Alex McKnight Mystery”, p.177, Macmillan

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• I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.

  Venus Williams

  Type, Just Do It

  Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2008.

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• I had always been an overachiever, so I felt I could just "wing it," reasoning that if I don't set clear, written goals I wouldn't have to account for anything if I failed. Now I'm the opposite! I am always setting goals, and I get very specific about where I'm going and take the time to learn the steps needed to take to get there.

  Edwina Findley

  Opposites, Wings, Goal

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