Quotes About Achievement

The goal of my Foundation is to give young people a chance to better themselves and establish a base for a successful future.

Many young people even tell me that 'You inspire us to do something big in life.'

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.

I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.

Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up.

Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.

As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble.

I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.

I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.

NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.

It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work.

I was ecstatic when we won - to host the Olympics is one of the biggest opportunities in living memory. It will help change the lives of young people and transform east London.

It's rewarding to know that I have young people in the gym who have the same goals as I had, and now I can help them reach those goals.

I've always been interested in exploring the concept of child prodigies. When I was younger, I wrote a story about Mozart as a child, and I just always loved this idea of young people who are able to take control of their lives and bring a whole lot of change at such a young age.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it.

I think there is a dissonance between how much is expected of you as a young person, whether you are a man or a woman: you are supposed to go to university; you get a master's degree, maybe two, particularly if you come from the middle class.

You cannot achieve your goal just with young players. We have to see them growing in a stable, mature squad.

When young players become one of the best in the world, everyone wants to sign them.

I hope maybe one day I can be like Wayne Rooney. Maybe then some young players will be proud to play against me. That would be amazing.

Being called up by the Azzurri is a great source of satisfaction. There are so many strong young players with great personalities, and for me, it's nice to be here, even if I'm playing it by ear.

It's nice to see those young players who are humble and working hard and to see them thriving in the NBA.

Some young players think that they want to be like Manuel Neuer.

Young players are more hungry because they have not achieved what some of the older players have.