Quotes About Achievement

No matter how different a career path we choose from our parents, people will always say we wouldn't have gotten there if it hadn't been for our name. And in the end, there's no way to tell if that's true or not. Maybe it's not the worst thing for people not to see you coming. If people want to underestimate me, I'm fine with that.

The worst thing for me would be going back to where I was - relative obscurity.

When you're 0-2 in the Super Bowl, they say unkind things about you. They say, 'He can't win the big one.' And that's the worst thing that can be said about you.

If you strive toward the perfect run, accepting that you will always come up short of that is very intriguing. It makes me think about how in life in general, we always want to strive toward perfection, but sometimes perfection would be the worst thing.

I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.

If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.

In America, if you succeed, you don't have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst thing in the world. It's easy for me to say because I have had more than many others, but at the end of the day, I have never envied anyone. I wish to no one that they waste their time envying anyone else.

I'm trying to avoid having regrets about missing opportunities. That would be the worst thing. Like having an audience waiting, and not working hard enough, and coming out with a record that disappointed them.

It wouldn't be the worst thing if you don't play that well but take points.

Setting points targets is sometimes the worst thing you can do - it puts pressure on.

To leave a job with a bad result is, I think, the worst thing in life to do. They will always remember you as a loser.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

Nothing that comes easy is worth a dime.

A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.

A thing well done is worth doing.

I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.