Quotes About Achievement

You don't just luck into things. ... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now hold your ground and later win a little more.

Yard by yard it's very hard. But inch by inch it's a cinch.

Instead of thinking about where you are think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.

It's a simple formula: do your best and somebody might like it.

Though thy beginning was small yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

Human successes like human failures are composed of one action at a time and achieved by one person at a time.

Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory.

All I wanted to do was come into my own and find out my career path and what I wanted to do with my life - but, at the same time, showing respect to my father and mother and make them proud as well.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated, ' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.

It's time you stop thinking that because you did something, it's... amazing. All you've got to do is say, 'OK. If I'm great, what do they call Steve Jobs?'

The first time I went on a serious run was when I was 21 years old at Stanford University. From 21 to 30, I continued the tradition and ran 10 miles every year on my birthday.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.

I was perceived to be a first- to third-rounder. I kind of had a tough junior year and fell to the fifth round. At that time, it was motivational.

My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8, 000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.

I remember my dad asking me one time, and it's something that has always stuck with me: 'Why not you, Russ?' You know, why not me? Why not me in the Super Bowl?

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.

With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.

Win now, and we'll walk together forever.