Quotes About Achievement

Many success addicts confess that they feel like losers when they see someone else who is yet more successful.

Success, the fruit of excellence, becomes an addiction. All because of pride. A cousin of pride is fear.

What I found was a hidden source of anguish that wasn't just widespread but nearly universal among people who have done well in their careers.

Great gifts and achievements early in life are simply not an insurance policy against suffering later on. On the contrary, studies show that people who have chased power and achievement in their professional lives tend to be unhappier after retirement than people who did not.

At work, successful people are lonely in a crowd.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

Do you dream about being remembered for your professional successes?

I am a very zone-specific person. For example, if I put all the pieces of a puzzle together, it's done, so there is nothing to look forward to.

If I have luck and keep working and the puzzle comes together, maybe one day I will drive an F1 car.

Football is like a pyramid. It is easy to reach the top of the pyramid, but to stay there is the hardest part.

Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one.

All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

I didn't have any qualifications when I left school - I had three O-levels.

There's more to life than passing exams, and paper qualifications can only take you so far. A lot depends on luck, and on being in the right place at the right time, which was certainly true in my case.

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

In that match for Holland I asked for a big responsibility, I got it and I dealt with it. I played well, I scored goals and the team qualified for the Euro 2004 finals. It was a big night and an important moment for Holland.

Peter Rodrick was one of only around 4,000 men in the world qualified to land jets on a carrier after dark.

I knew very little or nothing about the Olympics. Having qualified was itself a big achievement for me, and then being there was quite overwhelming. Although I lost in the opening round, but the fact that I fought well was enough for me to take away from Athens.

Being qualified means I can spend a bit more time at home.

I have fought back. From not being allowed to play, I have now qualified for Olympics in two events, it is satisfying. I feel proud.

In 1990 I qualified to play in the World Championships for the first time. I was ranked 125-1 to win but I knew I could do it.

It is the dream of every athlete to qualify and compete in the Olympics and I am no different.

In any business that you pursue, if you belong at the top, and you're perceived as having that caliber, and you do qualify, then it's something that you want to hold on to.

For me, it's a big deal to compete in the Olympics because it's so tough to qualify.