Quotes About Achievement

There were some that said if you hung in long enough, the world would catch on, and they have.

Mum eventually graduated with a City & Guilds certificate that hung proudly on our living room wall throughout my childhood.

The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.

I have a hunger for good roles.

There's a drive, there's a hunger inside of me that says, 'I know what I can do and I'm going to get it done.'

You have to have those times when your hunger and drive is in a different place because you're under pressure to have success.

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

I've accomplished more than I ever dreamed. But I'm hungry for more.

I'm hungry for VMAs and Grammys. That's my main goal.

I had talent, and I was hungry for fame, and you can't say I didn't get it.

I'm just hungry to win.

I always believed in getting better and better in each and every format and give my best. As a batsman, it is important to keep learning every time and stay hungry for your runs. I don't get satisfied.

I'm always hungry to score.

I am hungry, I want to achieve something with Chelsea.

I loved gymnastics. I was eager to compete. I was hungry to go out there and be the best in the world, and I had that determination.

I was the girl who battles oblivion and won. The chances were about 1 percent, but I did it.

It was about the worst outcome possible for my competitive wife: a town of contented also-rans.

That's what he learned from his life so far: always aim smaller.

Detta var i princip det värsta som skulle kunnat drabba min tävlingsinriktade hustru: ett samhälle med belåtna medelmåttor.

I see birthdays as a reward for having shown up 365 in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.

E perchè piace vincere, come mi piace vincere nel mio lavoro. Dimostrare che si può fare, che si può riuscire in qualcosa di utile anche quando sembra impossibile, quando le porte sembrano tutte chiuse. Accettare la sfida, misurarsi con le difficoltà.

Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.

But your achievement for others may easily come to be inscribed in the book of eternity -- either that which is seen on earth or that other which is believed to be in heaven. For that which you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue, but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own virtue. Farewell.

Speer's moral corruption had its seed in his emotional attachment to Hitler–he likened it to Faust's fatal bargain with Mephistopheles. Achievement and success rooting it ever deeper over the years, he lived–almost addictively–in an increasingly vicious cycle of need and dependence.