Quotes About Achievement

Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.

Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.

I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.

She gained fame in 1895 when she became the third woman to scale the Matterhorn—and the second to do so in trousers, at a time when women could be arrested for wearing them in public.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." -Bruce Lee

All men can do great things, if they know what great things are.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Homer tells us about some one who made it his business ±¹µ½ ±Á¹Ã??¹½ º±¹ ÅÀµ¹Á¿Ç¿½ µ¼¼µ½±¹ ±»»É½ — always to excel and to stand higher than other people. What an uncompanionable disagreeable person he must have been! Homer's heroes generally came to a bad end, and I

nothing is well done nor worth doing unless, take it all round, it has come pretty easily.

certain kind of good fortune generally attends self-made men to the last. It is their children of the first, or first and second, generation who are in greater danger, for the race can no more repeat its most successful performances suddenly and without its ebbings and flowings of success than the individual can do so, and the more brilliant the success in any one generation, the greater as a general rule the subsequent exhaustion until time has been allowed for recovery.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

In two words: im-possible.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

T]hough I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed—Slow rises worth, by poverty depress'd.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.