Quotes About Achievement

For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

I'd much rather people knew me as a good tennis player than as an aboriginal who happens to play good tennis. Of course I'm proud of my race, but I don't want to be thinking about it all the time.

You don't become great by thinking you're great. Working gives you all the confidence in the world.

I think, being a kid, you always think about being a movie star. And then as I got older, I started thinking about just the work.

I'm glad to have shown myself able to do other things rather than people thinking, 'Oh, he'll just do the same as his dad.' Dad was a brilliant actor, but it just so happened he was five foot five and a half, fat and bald.

Arsenal are a historic club. Arsene Wenger has been here for such a long time, and there is a real level of stability at the club. He knows what he wants to achieve in the coming years. I liked the way he spoke about football and what he thinks of me.

We all have ambitions, but only the few achieve. A man thinks of a good thing and says: 'Now if I only had the money I'd put that through.' The word 'if' was a dent in his courage. With character fully established, his plan well thought out, he had only to go to those in command of capital and it would have been forthcoming.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.

I've never really been somebody that thinks too much about what I've done.

As soon as he thinks about the record, he's finished. The secret is to put it out of your mind.

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly.

It might be a bad thing to be first , if you stop and think about it. It might be better to be second or third because then you can enjoy it and disappear - return to the society you came out of without someone always poking you in the side and saying you were first.

Making money is my third or fourth most favorite thing in the world.

I would absolutely classify as being incredibly progressive the fact that I am the third female prime minister.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less.

My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.

And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time.

It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.

If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupation third, that's when I've found success.

If I'm going to get up on stage to eat hot dogs, I'm not going to do it to get third or fourth.