Quotes About Achievement

I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.

At the age of 10, I had my first piece published in what was known as the 'Junior Post,' which was part of the 'Yorkshire Post,' and it was just for kids. I read it every week. And I got paid for it. So I thought... 'I can actually do this. I can get paid to write, and this is going to be fine.' I wrote several pieces for them.

I've learnt - and this pleases me - that my dad's cricketing life and my own will always be intertwined, even though I will finish far behind the number of appearances he made for Yorkshire and also his length of service at Headingley.

I think 'chuffed to bits' is a very Yorkshire way of describing my feelings for my friend and county team-mate Joe Root on his promotion to England captain.

Once you kind of get past doing the Yorkshire Championships, and the Northern Championships, and you go to the British Champs it's like, 'oh wow, diversity!'

Even with Yorkshire I had 19 fifties before I got my first hundred.

Seven years ago, when I started free soloing long, hard routes in Yosemite - climbing without a rope, gear or a partner - I did it because it seemed like the purest, most elegant way to scale big walls. Climbing, especially soloing, felt like a grand adventure, but I never dreamed it could be a profession.

All my achievements have been great achievements. I have been collaborating with big names and making hits - like my song 'Yosemite' with Travis Scott.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

If you're not cheating, you're not trying.

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

Just keep going. You never know how far you can go.

'If you believe, you can achieve' - that's my motto!

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

The climb might be tough and challenging,but the view is worth it. There is a purpose for that pain; you just can't always see it right away.

If you can see it, you can be it. And I believe in that.

You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you'll get to where you want.

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.