Quotes About Achievement

And yet, without discipline or direction, they'll end up washing cars, or unclaimed bodies in the city-state's morgue.

My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.

You can have a failed quest, but you can't have an achieved quest and no reward.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.

SPENCER: Hide and seek was my favorite game with Melissa. You want to know why? I always won.

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

We have not meet our destination till we are there for sure.

A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof.

You were born to this, weren't you?' 'Well, you know what they say – it's not where you start, it's where you finish.

it was] perceived that it was easier to rise upwards east of the Urals. A man who left Russia as a common soldier became a sergeant in Tobolsk, a captain in Yakutsk and a colonel in Kamchatka.

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.

Edwards said the greatest moment of his career was winning the national championship. The lowest moment (of my career) happens every time we lose to Utah.

Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that, to some extent, he has just been getting away with it all these years.

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

We need to know where we are going and how we plan to get there. Our dreams and aspirations must be translated into real and tangible goals with priorities and time frames.

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.

With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.