Best Overachiever Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Love and Gaslight

“Our need to be "greater than" or "less than" has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon us. The perpetrator walked away, leaving us with the shame. We absorbed the notion that we are somehow defective. To cover for this we constructed a false self, a masked self. And it is this self that is the overachiever or the dunce, the tramp or the puritan, the powermonger or the pathetic loser.”

Source: Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse

“And then I snapped. I'd been an overachiever all my life, so it made sense that I'd excel in all things. Including emotional breakdowns.”

Breakdown Overachiever Emotional Breakdown

Book:Mother Hater

Source: Mother Hater

“I'll go all out, ace every test No doubt, outdo all the rest Don't pout or settle for second best So I won't stop, and won't lose my cool Don't flop 'cause Harvard's no fool And who'll love me If I'm not the top of my school”

Academic Lyrics Lyrics In A Song Overachiever Top Of My School Valedictorian

Author:Katherine Lynn-Rose

“I gathered all my news of Joan into a little, bitter heap, though I received it with surface gladness. Joan was the beaming double of my old best self, specially designed to follow and torment me.”

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Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“You don’t need to be an overachiever, you just need to be a quality achiever.”

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Author:Drue Grit

“We were riding the 7:04 a.m. ferry crossing the Puget Sound to the Seattle Academy of Academic Excellence. The sky was overcast with streaks of gray, tufts of white, and shards of sun. Drizzling. All our fellow students who lived in Port Ann made the hour ferry ride to and from Seattle every day. We didn't mind--it gave us two hours a day to do our advanced placement homework, practice our Latin, and eat fries.”

Humor Young Adult Overachiever Autumn Cornwell

Book:Carpe Diem

Source: Carpe Diem

“What would've happened if Dad had told Abi or me to 'settle down with a good boy'?" I scoff. "Well, first off, Abi would've told him to fuck off, and you would've probably said you're too young. And then I would've killed him." She laughs. "But when he told you to, you marched right out there and got yourself a bride. Fucking overachiever.”

Siblings Overachiever

Book:My Big Fat Fake Wedding

Source: My Big Fat Fake Wedding

“I bet some of you are thinking, Who has time to Pause? There’s too much to do! Have you seen my to-do list? I have—and I know it well. I’m a recovering multitasker and overachiever. And I also know how hard it can be to even think about hitting that Pause button.”

Thinking Stop Multitasking Pause Overachiever

Book:Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

Source: Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“I’m not an over achiever, I've just been underestimated.”

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Author:Robert J. Braathe

“Too many Americans are spurred to achieve, rather than to attach.”

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Book:A General Theory of Love

Source: A General Theory of Love

“I was always an overachiever.”

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Author:Donna Rice Hughes

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

Jobs Rooms Clean Overachiever

Book:Winter of the Wolf Moon: An Alex McKnight Mystery

Source: Winter of the Wolf Moon: An Alex McKnight Mystery

“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.”

Different Levels Degrees Harder Luck Rise Above Competencies Overachiever

Author: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."”

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Author:John Eliot

“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.”

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Author:Edwina Findley

“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.”

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Author:Kathryn Budig

“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.”

Ifs Way Looks Please Painful Right Way Look At Me Overachiever

Author:Louise Bourgeois

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

Literature Talking Attractive Exceed Overachiever

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“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.”

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Author:John Legend

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

Want Love Life Known Relationship Good Things Achiever Overachiever

Author:Taylor Swift

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

Type Just Do It Overachiever

Author:Venus Williams

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

People Way Inspirational Mind Use Turns Achievement Ordinary Ordinary People Overachiever

Book:Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More

Source: Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More

“To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer.”

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Author:Dabo Swinney

“I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.”

World Approval Overachiever

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“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.”

Hard Guy Ability Talent Hard Work Hardest Overachiever Peyton

Author:Tony Dungy

“Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.”

Thinking Achievement Overachiever

Author:John Eliot

“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.”

Needs Made Sometimes Force Vulnerable Poison Fuel Insecure Antidote Overachiever

Book:Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits

Source: Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits