Quotes About Achievement

The silver medal is incredible, because we worked so hard for so many years. Sacrificing, absolutely demolishing our bodies for hours a day, 11 months a year, years on end.

Whatever you want to do in life, just know that you will do it. Just believe in yourself. It might take so many years to finally accomplish that, but you have to work for it.

But Pete had the desire to play at the highest level for so many years. That is very difficult, mentally.

My work is all that I think about because I spent so many years not doing anything. Therefore, work pleases me, which is success in itself.

Harvard was very important to me and has been very important to so many people for so many years.

I played so many years without having a big contract, to have the big contract and not win and not have the appreciation, it hurt.

I won so many years in Seattle and then to go to Cleveland... I had a pretty nice year the first year I got there and then the last two years, we just weren't able to make it to the playoffs.

I've been lucky to play with so many great players, to be coached by so many great coaches and lucky enough to be healthy enough for so many years.

People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals.

If you ask another competitor, they may tell you they felt very competitive towards me. But I can tell you that my biggest competition was myself. There's only so much you can do, right? There is only so much energy that one has. My focus was on how do I get the best out of myself.

My five years in Arizona were so much fun because we were winning and I knew how to enjoy it because I knew the other side of it.

When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.

I always thought it would be so much fun to write a book.

That's a moment I will never forget in my life, never ever. It was the first time I made the playoffs. After we lost to the Celtics, I told myself, I never want to play a season without making the playoffs, because it was so much fun.

I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that's why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony.

For the last 10 years, I've been working with Donald Glover and Ryan Coogler, and we've put down so much time really trying to make the best that we can, whether it's a movie, a film score, or a song.

I really wanted to do 'Darna.' I invested so much time, so much effort.

It's great to get an 'F', but you also want to give the sense that there's something outside achievement. I've seen a lot of so-called high-achievers who don't feel they've achieved much.

ready for prime time. Never mind his immense popularity, a recent Grammy for best pop album, or a concert tour that grossed $ 72.4 million. For critics, the

I had to go to literature to survive. It was through literature such as Black Spring that I came to a deeper understanding of my place and time and allowed me to come to where I am today and to achieve what I've achieved today.

If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes. Mark Twain1

Illumination is the process of perpetual self-development by the struggle and achievement of short and long-term goals. Illumination is the precise realization that identifying your goals magically, attaining knowledge which is applied towards the force of your Will. This act of Will Power is the act of compelling, transforming and focusing energy to achieve a determined goal.

the first step towards greatness is taking the first step

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.