43 Overachiever Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous overachiever quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational overachiever quotes. Hopefully, these overachiever quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your overachiever knowledge!
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- To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer. — Dabo Swinney
- 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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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
The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. — Fran Lebowitz
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
What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform. — John Eliot
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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