Quotes About Achievement

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

I have done one brave thing - Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring - Which is to keep that hid

I have done one braver thingThan all the Worthies did;And yet a braver thence doth spring,Which is, to keep that hid.

To train in the martial arts is like being apprenticed to frustration, to the burn of effort, and the unattainable criteria of perfection. There's no glamour, no reward beyond the ones you create in your own heart. You struggle along the path and your teacher goads you or challenges you, always three steps ahead and always waiting, his eyes betraying nothing but demanding everything. And you try to give it.

Effort is its own reward.

How do I get to Broadway?...I want to get to the center of things.

I've been happy with my life. Also very lucky. I lead two lives - businessman and racer - and it feels like the best of both worlds.

The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE!

Anything you want to do is possible; fear is not meant to prevent but to motivate your heart into the life you naturally think is improbable.

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

My life is basically a big chunk of greatness.

Remember, if you succeed in everything you try in life, you're living below your full potential and you should take up more difficult or daring things.

even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.

A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism.

One of my main goals in life is to make those that believed in me look extremely brilliant.

I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players and that's what I tried to do.

If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... Id never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.

All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing once they are experienced.

If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.