Overachiever Quotes

The Stoics taught a life of restraint and control, the personal cultivation of learning, beauty, and reason. The Stoics asked the Romans to realize that much that is encountered in life is beyond the individual's control. Make the best of what can be humanly cultivated. It is a kind of Platonism shrunk to a pursuit of private feelings and thoughts: Do the best with what you can control and refine, and let the rest go.
"The world is rational, but it is only amenable to active intervention within the limits of the individual's capacity. Do not try to be an overachiever. Do not dream of social transformation. Private cultivation rather than social action makes for the good life. Although the slave Epictetus was one of the principal Stoic writers, the emperor Marcus Aurelius's upper-class background is more typical of its devotees.
"Stoicism is a narrow ethic, one suitable to the emotional and intellectual needs of aristocrat and slave alike, but less useful for the ambitious middle class. ~ Norman F. Cantor

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world ... ~ Madonna Ciccone

You're weird, man," said Max, taking another bite of his sandwich. "That's all there is to say. Someday you're going to kill a whole bunch of people probably more than ten, because you're such an overachiever - and then they're going to have me on TV and ask if I saw this corning, and I'm going to say, 'Hell yes, that guy was seriously screwed up.'"
"Then I guess I have to kill you first," I said. ~ Dan Wells

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

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

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

I know, as an overachiever straight-A student in school, I always responded to smart, strong, women represented on screen. ~ Allison Scagliotti

She felt stupid, though she knew she wasn't. She was intelligent, had always been an A student and an overachiever. The fact that her short-term memory came and went didn't make her less intelligent. It just made her feel that way - which made her think other people would feel the same way about her. They would think of her as brain-damaged. ~ Tami Hoag

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

Tony wanted to kill me, the Senate wanted to make me their stooge, and, oh, yeah, I'd also managed to piss off the mages. What can I say? I'm an overachiever. ~ Karen Chance

If you are an over-thinker, an overachiever, or a perfectionist, then stop thinking and start doing. ~ Monika Kanokova

The older sister could have been an overachiever who cast the kind of shadow in which nothing could grow. ~ Karin Slaughter

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