Quotes About Achievement

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.

Our dreams are meant to come true, you know. What would be the purpose of dreaming if we could not fulfill our dreams?

Glory is an empty plate to feed from.

We want recognition, not accomplishment.

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

One of Us: Someday, the light will shine like a sun through my skin & they will say, What have you done with your life? & though there are many moments I think I will remember, in the end, I will be proud to say, I was one of us.

The year 1992 should have been remembered as the 700th anniversary of the death of a man who changed the world. Yet the occasion passed without note. Few know of the remarkable achievements of someone who, more than any other, can be said to have invented science.

Rome wasn't built in a day, but then again I wasn't on that particular job.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

Life is a show, where you're the writer and star. It rests solely on your performance to make it a masterpiece.

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level

Love is the highest achievement to which any human may aspire. It is an emotion that encompasses the full depth of heart, mind, and soul.

A winner has more skills than a loser," Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself.

Earn your death.

Success is a fickle mistress. If you go chasing her, she will ignore you. If you leave her alone and just go about your business, she might come looking for you.

The primary human need, he decided—stronger than the need for food or sex or love—is the need for recognition, the need to make a mark in the world.

You have an unfinished quality that in a person of your age is an achievement.

Schiller had no illusions about the scale of his own achievement, but he had tried, through art, to bring a little more beauty, a little more tolerance, a little more coherence into the world, and now he felt he had earned the right to look back at the statue with an unembarrassed eye.

With one hundred miles left to go in the Klondike 200 I began imagining how amazed people would be at the finished line. Entering the Klondike, my sights had been set on merely finishing.