Quotes About Achievement

People don't walk into the top spot. They're driven. One

Why was it so scary to ask themselves one simple question: Why am I doing what I'm doing? Part of me understood the vortex, of course. Part of me understood that they couldn't stop, particularly if they'd enjoyed success, because if they did stop, they would stop being relevant. I understood. Completely.

Mother: "Rumi wrote that…roughly…the only thing that will be with you to your grave is your work. Only your work will speak for you after you're gone." There

By the time I left New York, I knew that success and failure are silly terms in which to speak of living a life.

I regard the wheelbarrow full of fresh dirt resting above my unquiet grave. Now I'm in the hole I dug myself, I think with amusement. It feels like an accomplishment

Much effort, much prosperity.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

When you know what you want you usually get it.

If you want something enough you usually get it. But you have to take what goes with it.

Felicity followed felicity.

Siempre hay esperanza —les dije—, incluso cuando la vida parece desoladora. Hay que tener la voluntad y la fuerza para cambiar de vida, y conseguir lo que nos propongamos.

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.

I've never done a job that I didn't think was a stretch." -Sandra Day O'Connor

She is an achieving woman without an edge. She is good-looking without being alienatingly beautiful and bright without being alarmingly intellectual,' wrote McGrory.

a human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost.

Wealthy are the ones that create value, value that grows with hard work and dedication towards a specific task.

People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.

Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.

When I first released 'The One And Only' nobody knew it was going to be so big. I just thought, 'Oh, this is what happens when you release a record? Brilliant! Let's release another.'

Once I am done with the film, I don't worry about how many centres the film has released, what are the BO records, etc. As I have no knowledge of such things, feeling the pressure doesn't arise.

I was 19. 'The One And Only' was my first record. It went to No. 1 and I was this big star. I thought that was what happened when you released records. Of course that is not normal. It's a great record and I'm still really proud of it but I think it was a bit of a fluke.

I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I wanted to do.