57 Overachiever Quotes

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Famous Overachiever Quotes

To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer. — Dabo Swinney

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

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself. — Denis Waitley

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

Work ethic must exceed the expectation level. — Tom Coughlin

To be the best you have to work overtime. — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Over deliver in all you do and soon you will be rewarded for the extra effort. — Zig Ziglar

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach. — Lee Iacocca

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement. — Kurt Lewin

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach. — Lee Iacocca

Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority. — Gary Keller

I'm one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I'm out of control with it. I'm just gonna use every feature to make me outrageous - the best. — DJ Khaled

Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker. — Stephen Hawking

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation. — Jack Nicklaus

Better work often comes from those striving for excellence than from those who have already achieved it. — Greg Brockman

Short Overachiever Quotes

  • I was always an overachiever. — Donna Rice
  • I became an overachiever to get approval from the world. — Madonna Ciccone
  • Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally. — John Eliot
  • Whoever's job it was to keep the room clean was clearly not an overachiever. — Steve Hamilton
  • Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve. — Tom Peters
  • I always try to overachieve. I feel I have something to prove every day. — Frank Thomas
  • I was always an overachiever. — Donna Rice Hughes
  • Would you rather have an overachieving 3-Star, or an underachieving 5-Star? — Bret Bielema
  • Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving. — Lois McMaster Bujold

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More Overachiever Quotes

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. — Alan Watts

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

Underachievers think they're working harder than they actually are. Overachievers think they're not working hard enough. Underachievers think they know it all. Overachievers think they don't know it all. History favors the overachiever. — Patrick Bet-David

People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing. — Guy Browning

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

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

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

I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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

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

Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to the wind, ignore the pleas of parents, coaches, spouses, and bosses to be "realistic." — John Eliot

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

Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction to his parents' fighting: his laziness, his overachieving, his tendency to isolate, his tendency to seduce, his hypochondria, his sense of invulnerability, his self-loathing, his narcissism. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I think that that's part of how people have responded to The Tiger Rising. It's what I call my dark child. It's gotten sandwiched in between two overachieving, tap-dance-performing kids - Winn-Dixie and Despereaux. — Kate DiCamillo

The fact that I was a believer, a Christian, everybody immediately thought this guy's a minister, he's so nice and, oh by the way, he can play a little bit. The other thing for me is being undersized. What a great story, what an overachiever, kind of like Rudy. — Mike Singletary

Yeah, I was a pretty good kid, you know, I was - I was- I was an overachiever and I worked very hard, played a hell of a fiddle. — Mike Wallace

It's not about what you've done; it's how you've experienced whatever has happened to you. Matt Lawrence in The Overachievers — Alexandra Robbins

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

That overachieving, ambitious, nobody-can-hold-me-down attitude I had, which came from a place of anger and aggression, has transformed into feeling like I will take on the world, but I will do it with an embrace, rather than with my dukes up. — Christina Aguilera

I was always pretty organized in high school and my mother, she always pushed me to just overachieve, both my parents. (They) let me know education is key and without it nowadays, you probably wouldn't be able to get a good job or have a decent living. — Jeremih

I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things. — Nik Wallenda

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