Quotes About Achievement

A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want.

When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be.

To be the best of all time, you have to do it over and over. I want to keep it up, and then the numbers will speak for themselves.

When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.

Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal.

There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

If someone has the chance to be top scorer and you want to encourage him, then you give him the chance to be top scorer but it never happened. That's why I believe something is going on there.

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

It's strange to think that I can go places and people want to hear my music. I guess that's all I ever wanted.

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.

I don't think about winning the Masters as part of the slam. You want to win the Masters because of what it means to the game.

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.

My idol, Gary Payton, played 19 years. I definitely want to try to reach that.

Success is something you attract by the person you become. If you want to have more, you must become more.

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

I put the ball in play. That's what I want.

There are a million things I can think of that I would I want to do. Reporting like you, would be one. A talk show host maybe, also. I want to do a lot.

We don't have a World Series or a Super Bowl, so to be able to come home with a gold medal is amazing. I want to do it again in four more years.