Quotes About Achievement

I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.

Many of us have joined a swim team at one time or another, and there is a shared foundational experience here that's worth examining. Battle past the desperate life-or-death phase of swimming, and you begin to appreciate how good the water feels. Join a team, and you begin to appreciate the company you keep. Competition happens when you get good enough at swimming to want to be better.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

Success is not measured by the heights one attains, but by the obstacles one overcomes in its attainment.

Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.

It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.

I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.

In later years, I confess that I do not envy the white boy as I once did. I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of race.

With few exceptions, the Negro youth must work harder and must perform his tasks even better than a with youth in order to secure recognition. But out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one missed whose pathway is comparatively smooth by reason of brith and race.

I said that any individual who learned to do something better than anybody else—learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner—had solved his problem, regardless of the colour of his skin, and that in proportion as the Negro learned to produce what other people wanted and must have, in the same proportion would he be respected.

Success is not to be measured so much by the status one has attained in life but rather by the obstacles one has overcome while trying to succeed.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Looked

Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work

My experience is that there is something in human nature which always makes an individual recognize and reward merit, no matter under what colour of skin merit is found. I have found, too, that it is the visible, the tangible, that goes a long ways in softening prejudices. The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.

When a Negro girl learns to cook, to wash dishes, to sew, or write a book, or a Negro boy learns to groom horses, or to grow sweet potatoes, or to produce butter, or to build a house, or to be able to practise medicine, as well or better than some one else, they will be rewarded regardless of race or colour. In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not long keep the world from what it wants.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.