Quotes About Achievement

You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

I have made it possible for many colored women to abandon the washtub for a more pleasant and profitable occupation.

The more you win, the brand of women's cricket will go higher.

I was thrilled and amazed when I found out we won the Nobel Prize. The dedicated and talented women and men of the COBE team collaborated to produce the science results being recognized. This is truly such a rare and special honor.

I must recall with gratitude those 178 Jewish women and men who participated in the Estonian War of Independence. Both of our nations know what it means to keep your identity and freedom even under the pressure of foreign powers, and we can be proud of their achievements.

In a world where women and men are advised to 'lean in,' run faster and reach higher, Arianna Huffington has courageously redefined the meaning of success.

Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

Climbing has a lot of themes that are applicable to people, no matter who you are.

People who become 'elite' at what they do aren't striving to be 'elite' just to join some special club. They take great joy and satisfaction in the pursuit of mastery, and they compete against themselves, not others.

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day.

First be best, then be first.

At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.

I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.

When you want to succeed as bad as you want breathe, then you will be successful.

I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie - or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people's life better, then that's something that's really good.

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.