Quotes About Achievement

The nobility which exists within any cause is to be found not in any achievement, but instead within the struggle.

"American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life.

Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day.

My big goal in life is to prove people wrong.

It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.

My life has been very full.

Unless you have spent your life doing something, you are not likely to be successful, so always partner with people who are smarter than you.

I've never once in my life known a person who was successful who didn't have a big ego. Ego's not a bad thing.

I am a person who grew up with two wonderful parents and a wonderful family and a person who has done well in life.

I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.

If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's not worth it.

If life is a video game, then most of us have no chance of winning, if by winning you mean succeeding in a quest or saving a princess.

I'm just feeling like it was meant to be. What can I say? The birth of my son, and in the first year of his life, we won a Super Bowl Championship.

Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.

I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.

I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.

All my life has been about proving myself.

In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.

My life has been quite interesting professionally.

It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.

What would be impressing to me, is in 30 days you see a change in your life.