Quotes About Achievement

The achievement of late eighth-century scholars was to begin to understand certain of the logical doctrines developed in antiquity, and to bring these into a relation with theology which provided the stimulus for philosophical speculation.

Well, I've learnt this much: it doesn't matter what it costs, it's worth paying the price. You can't live cheap and you can't live for nothing. Pay the price and be proud you've paid it, that's what I reckon.

I've succeeded, I guess, but sometimes maybe to succeed is to fail

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

Americans Never Quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We Make History. -John McCain

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

The final score was 6–4, 6–2, 6–3. I gave young Andre a hug at the net, and said, "Why did you listen so well?

Look at almost any of the great players. Would they have succeeded anyway if they hadn't been pushed? That's the unanswerable question. Would Agassi have been a great champion if he hadn't been pushed by his father? Would Monica Seles, if her father hadn't quit his job and pushed her? It's difficult to say.

My life feels good—and better all the time—but as good as it gets, sometimes it's hard to forget those tremendous victories…. That's when I have to remind myself that I really had no one to share those victories with. That's when I remember how cold the top of the mountain was.

Week by week, I was rising to new heights, and when you ascend that quickly, and at such an early age, the oxygen doesn't always flow to your brain.

I wouldn't have told this to a soul back then, but as early as my first Wimbledon in '77, I realized I had the potential to be the very best: the best tennis player in the world. I confirmed it for myself as I rose through the rankings—but then, more and more, the problem became that almost everybody was somebody I shouldn't lose to. The pressure became incomprehensible.

The shoes had come to define him as he proceeded to break every sprinting record at New Bedford High School and other high schools across the Commonwealth, earning himself the nickname Fast Eddie.

thinks about how good it feels to finally have something worth sharing.

For time and space and love and laughter, I have to thank my own home team: my husband, Chip Cunningham, who has, over the past nineteen years, made all of my dreams come true; my all-star son Maxx Cunningham (who gets his first cameo in one of Mom's books); my son Dawson "the Dawg" Cunningham, who is coming out on top; and my radiant daughter, Shelby Cunningham.

where a person comes from means far less than what she makes of herself.

It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done.

Sometimes it bothered him, but mostly it was pretty nice to know that his parents wholeheartedly believed he could do anything, yet were still bursting with pride when he did.

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

After the first attempt of the Nike Breaking2 project Eluid Kipchoge ran the fastest marathon in history 2:00:25. After he finished he said this. The world now is only 25 seconds away - Eluid Kipchoge

Marathon is life. And life is where you progress.