Quotes About Achievement

Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

It was kind of unexpected, to wake up one day and realize that the things that you've worked so hard to accomplish, you've accomplished in so little an amount of time.

Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.

a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.

Oh every time I close my eyes I see my name in shining lights

No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.

A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.

Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone. The first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.

I teach kids how to be rich by the time they are age 40, 35 if they are extra bright. Most kids think they are extra bright, so they go for 35.

Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time.

That was such an important time for us, as a team. It was our second gold medal in a row, following Salt Lake City, and really established ourselves as the best team in the world.

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.

I want to make a better record than I made the last time. I want to grow. I want to discover new things about myself creatively.

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!

Nothing separates successful people from unsuccessful people more than how they use their time!

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.