Quotes About Achievement

You just do it one step at a time.

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.

I made 'Rio Bravo' with John Wayne. It worked out pretty well and we both liked it, so a few years later we decided to make it again. Worked out pretty good that time, too.

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there.

My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.

Since I was 15 years old I've never been able to spend Christmas, Halloween or Thanksgiving (with friends and family). This was the first time I was able to enjoy a Super Bowl.

You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.

Time is inelastic and inflexible. Time is indispensable. No achievement is possible without time.

I'm very proud of my daughter. She accomplished a whole lot in the short time that she had here... she was a very wonderful person.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

Big time players make big time plays in big time games.

I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don't have to do them all at once.

Downs did not blunt her pursuit of excellence at Moon Valley High. Her intelligence was part of her armor against the world. Her name on the honor roll bolstered her still fragile ego.

But Elizabeth Diane was not happy. She still felt invisible. She studied harder, hoping to achieve acceptance with better and better grades. No one seemed to notice her.

Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

kitchen with the window means we have finally arrived at some precarious level of prosperity.