Quotes About Achievement

An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.

It's natural to be afraid of replacing everything you already gained by a dream.

Believing that you can be sure of everything you've achieved.

When he wins the battle, the Warrior celebrates.

He is now walking from his dream.

Few take up the burden of their own victory; most give up their dreams when these become impossible.

Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having.

If you go around promising what you do not yet have, you will lose the will to achieve it.

Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.

Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.

Life has taught me to just be the best I can be.

Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire to but attain. Reading gave me hope. For me, it was the open door.

Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.

Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread

I think I lot of young people feel like they have no purpose, so I try to enlighten them with my life and show them you can do whatever you put your mind to.

Life is a race. If you delay starting, how can you have any hope of winning?

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

No matter what you achieve in life, you're always wondering, 'Is there something I should be doing? Is there something I'm missing?

With sports, you get the results back right away. With life, it's not always so black and white.