Quotes About Achievement

One line on a Tom Selleck sitcom does not a career make.

It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress, and I have enjoyed every moment of it. It was such an incredible honor to be asked, and I am so proud of what we and the Alexander McQueen team have created.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!

It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder—or impossible—to lose.

it's not the thought that counts. In this world, it's the action that counts.

That boy may have been born on third base but he sure as shit ain't scored a triple.

I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.

Sometimes I fall, but landing every jump isn't the point. It's the attempt. It's the effort.

I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing.

Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was.

You put umph in triumph

It isn't so much that geniuses make it look easy; it's that they make it look it fast.

Achieve a goal and suffer its loss.

When I indulge in envy, I envy everyone who has ever achieved anything.

When a student surpasses my expectations, I feel proud and betrayed.

Giving up and submitting to suffering looks the same as achieving total detachment and surpassing the Buddha.

It isn't so much that geniuses make it look easy; it's that they make it look fast.

Most of those who tried to be the best failed. So I tried to be the second-best, and sometimes I succeeded.

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

Behind every successful woman are several confused men who give her something to make fun of.

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper—whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress.

This was the house that Paula had taken me and two other graduate students to years earlier. She had told us to go out on the deck, look at the view of the Atlantic Ocean, and say to ourselves, This is what playwriting can buy. Now