Quotes About Achievement

Going for the Rhodes, it really put a label on me that was hard to shake, and frankly I don't think that I did shake it.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

A lot of people like to live on laurels that happened 20 or 30 years ago, but it's nice to get awards. It's nice to be labeled and things like that, but I'm not sure everybody qualifies.

Labels are irrelevant. It's the results.

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

I never used to get calls from artists or labels, but once you have a top 20 hit, you start getting them.

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

I'm not saying I didn't have a great 2008. I just made it a chore. I made it look laborious.

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

Labour has an impressive record of delivery for black Britain.

I've seen at first-hand what Labour Governments can achieve in power.

Your Bret Harts can lace my boots.

I'm the kind of person that when I saw a lack of African Americans in the apparel business, that was something I set out to do, and I lead by example.

I had a good career, but I still feel like I should have done more. It wasn't through a lack of trying. I just couldn't stay healthy.

Lo importante es el camino, no la meta. No se trata solo del logro de algo increíble. Se trata del propio hecho de hacerlo, día tras día, de tener la oportunidad de participar en algo verdaderamente increíble.

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I was alive, they were not. Go Me. (Touch the Dark)

It feels good to know that if I died tomorrow I would have absolutely no regrets about things I wanted to do in life but did not try.

Love is how you earn your wings.

There is nothing shameful in wanting, Venetia. There's only shame in not getting.

Miracles are like murders. After the first one, each becomes easier than the last for, with each success, the miracle-worker's certainty in himself becomes stronger.

It seemed Barrons had finally gotten his cake and eaten it too.

What we achieve at our best moment doesn't say much about who we are. It all boils down to what we become at our worst moment.

You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic?