Quotes About Achievement

For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.

Victories come when their time comes. Often later than you wish. Patience is an essential quality of a coach's profession.

Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.

For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.

Regardless of Bobby's recent hate-filled rantings, which I abhor, he is nonetheless one of the greatest chessplayers of all time.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

Time and pains will do anything.

Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.

If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.

Hopefully, the 27th time's the charm!

The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks.

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

Time is not measured by the years that pass by, instead by the things you do, feel or accomplish.

A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there... whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.

It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did.

High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.

Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth.