Quotes About Achievement

Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about.

Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.

If it can be done, then we'll do it. If it can't be done by us, then no one can do it." Self-Assess

Developing a Culture of Accountability where people take ownership for achieving key organizational results requires a willingness to make the link between where you are and what you have done with where you want to be and what you are going to do to get there.

If you are afraid to take risks and continue to push yourself forward, then there will be some obstacles you will never overcome.

There is no 'easy button' when it comes to beating the competition. Success is simply about working hard and delivering results and staying uncomfortable.

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

To me, what I love about the draft is first, you see the young men who are realizing their dreams that they've worked so hard for. That's a pretty cool thing. You saw the emotion from some of these guys the other day. And then, the second thing is this total sense of hope and optimism. And, I think that's great for everybody.

Civilization is an achievement not a gift; it is always besieged, must constantly be defended, and once lost, is immeasurably difficult to reclaim. We see the results of the assaults against freedom all around us.

To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.

The future is to be conquered, the present ridiculed, and the past outdone." Voltaire Almighty

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

In America, if you succeed, you get sued. If nobody is suing you in America, you haven't made it there.

The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.

For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.

A partner can encourage you, maybe even stop you from falling, but they can't get you to the top. That's entirely up to you.

When you climb a mountain, you need to be looking forward not backward.