Quotes About Achievement

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

The truth is, successful people are not ten times smarter than you. They don't really work ten times harder than you. So why are they successful? Because their dreams are so much bigger than yours!

You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often, but it will happen. It's like sculpting: you keep refining. When you have a piece that is yours, that is just you, that becomes obsessive; you think about it all the time.

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

Certain things should be yours to have when you work your way to the top.

This life is yours and no one else's, and if you spend your time looking at other people's pages, you'll never get anything done.

It makes you feel like the pool is yours when you have your family there. You walk up to them and see them crying... and you know they are proud of you.

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.

Your results are very quantifiable. And nobody can take those results away from you. They are yours... All of that, I think, is very good for women.

When a young reader tells you that they'd never finished a book outside of school until they read yours, or that they really needed to hear something that one of your characters says or thinks... that's just rewarding and humbling.

There are 320 million American dreams. Go get yours.

You cannot be loved always, you cannot expect every film of yours to do a certain way, but I feel proud of the work I have done and projects I have been part of.

I tried hard to create my own records when a lot of them belonged to Steve Davis, so to see someone else beat yours, you'd be lying if you said there wasn't a twinge of regret there.

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.

Stay focused, believe that you can achieve at the highest level, surround yourself with others who believe in you, and do not stray from your goal.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

I think self-discovery is the greatest achievement in life, because once you discover yourself and accept what you are, then you can fulfil your true potential and be happy.

As long as you remain true to yourself and continue training with sincerity, nobody can stop you from achieving excellence.

Success is not an accident. When you put yourself in the right place at the right time, then you're likely to be more successful because of how you prepare yourself on a daily basis.

When you're challenged to the extreme, you learn so much about yourself. And when you're willing to give that ultimate sacrifice, when you're willing to tackle a job or a task or a mission head-on and give 100%, you can achieve amazing things because you're almost fearless.

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.