Quotes About Achievement

One bit of advice I can give people is to remember that anything worthwhile takes a long time.

Discomfort is the way to go if you want to make something you feel is worthwhile.

To help enable the kind of science Hubble is performing makes my life worthwhile.

I did not win anything at Leverkusen so to win six titles in four years with Bayern shows the move was worthwhile.

Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

It's a very working-class thing, to get where you want and then not feel worthy.

I need to do well and show I'm a worthy driver in F1.

There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

Most of my life is taken up with family. It takes me awhile to get a record together that I feel is worthy of putting out.

Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them.

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or not achieving things - when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them, because they're worthy. I like to wake up and feel I've done no wrong. I like that feeling.

As a therapist, I've worked with many high-achieving people who don't feel worthy of their success. Whether it was a recent college graduate who had landed a high-paying job or a mature adult who had just received another promotion, all of these people suffer from impostor syndrome.

Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

I have faith that worthy but misunderstood or ignored books can still prevail - and when they do, fewer joys are as sweet - but authors have families to support and rent to pay, and for them, I hope for acclaim in their time rather than late-in-life or posthumously.

Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short- and long-range goals. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet, and once a goal is accomplished, others can be set up.

The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My publicist says I'm not supposed to say that, but I don't feel I'm there yet.

I'm hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I'm worthy to carry the flag. That's my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me.