Quotes About Achievement

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Sports are not for everyone.

People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.

It's the squeeze we've endured that proves to the world that the final product is worth it. From

Anything worth achieving in this life requires time, patience, and some discomfort.

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

Education validates your intelligence giving rise to justification and acceptance in society.

The making of a champion is one not given the benefit of the doubt on rumored abilities.

Even in death may you triumphant

It matters not whether you win or lose: what matters is whether I win or lose.

Loving yourself means realizing you're greater than the title on your business card or the grades on a school progress report. Whatever you think your purpose is in life now, know that it isn't necessarily your destiny, and destiny isn't purpose.

Never let your obstacles become more important than your goal.

Because I'm going to make you understand the family motto: Never let your obstacles become more important than your goal.

On her walls she'd posted the family slogan: Never let your obstacles become more important than your goal. The goals: go to class, get your grades up, graduate, stay out of jail, survive.

With his marine clocks, John Harrison tested the waters of space-time. He succeeded, against all odds, in using the fourth—temporal—dimension to link points on the three-dimensional globe. He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.

In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of "discovering the longitude" became a synonym for attempting the impossible.

John "Longitude" Harrison was born March 24, 1693, in the county of Yorkshire, the eldest of five children.

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

No one ever excused his way to success.

Deep down, our single greatest fear is to live a life of insignificance, to come to the end of our life and feel like we never really did anything that mattered. That is our greatest fear.

What battles have in common is the human: the behavior of men struggling to reconcile their instinct of self-preservation, their sense of honor and the achievement of some aim over which other men are ready to kill them. The study of battle is therefore always a study of fear and usually of courage, usually also of faith and sometimes vision. —Sir Herbert Butterfield Man On His Past

And I always say that to the children: "You are the greatest thing I ever did in my life!

Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.