Quotes About Achievement

My lute, awake! perform the lastLabor that thou and I shall waste,And end that I have now begun;For when this song is sung and past,My lute, be still, for I have done.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature—subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today…. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

When I was a lad I served a termAs office boy to an Attorney's firm.I cleaned the windows and I swept the floorAnd I polished up the handle of the big front door.I polished up that handle so carefulleeThat now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!

The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.

As John Ashbery once said, "Being a famous poet is the not the same thing as being famous.

You always love playing in finals at any tournament. The grand slams and stuff like that are obviously the priorities but any titles go on your record.

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

Your greatest achievement is to love me.

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

I want us to have it all, love and career. It's a struggle sometime to achieve that, but I love the struggle.

I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.

The fact that I get to do what I love and 14 years in, I'm still doing it - I don't know how anything could get better.

With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.

I love taking hits away from guys and seeing their reaction.

The thing I probably love the most is driving out with the championship trophy under my arm.

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

I love skating so much and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that's what I'm meant to do.

I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.