Quotes About Achievement

That's impossible," Gwen gasped. "The fastest I've ever run on a treadmill was ten and a half minutes and I nearly died. And it was only one mile. I had to rest for hours and eat chocolate to revive myself.

When one begins at the bottom, ascendance is a given.

I want results and I know how to get them. He's always telling me to ask. Tonight I'm asking.

close only counts in hand-grenades and horseshoes.

It's not much fun always being the best and fastest. A little competition keeps you on your toes, makes you try harder, live larger.

Only as high as I reach can I grow, Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be.

The game lasts twenty seconds, tops. You don't want to come all that way and miss the game.

I have risen as far as this world will permit me to go," the doctor told the empty cave. "To travel farther, must I also invert myself entirely?

It's easy to become married. Millions of people do it every year. If you want to pressure me to become something, hey, why not pick something a little more challenging—like an astrophysicist.

Sometimes you have to go through the worst, to get to the best. Keep moving forward. Be patient.

When I think back to who I was just a few years ago, I realize, proudly, how much my challenges have empowered me to grow.

You ain't dead yet, so you ain't done.

graduation.

Is there always under the glory of white wings and graceful speed, the scaffolding of a cross? If you meet a woman who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her. What you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for (hanging) dead. We are so busy doing and achieving that we have lost touch with our inner life – that life that gives meaning to symbols and conversely the symbols that give meaning to life.

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans- unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

she had begun to learn that success was sometimes simply a matter of having the courage to proceed in the direction of one's dreams.

I have gotten to travel the world and experience all these incredible things thanks to my career.

My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.

My mother used to tell me that the best defense for anything is doing a good job" -Robin