Quotes About Achievement

I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can. I never was like that as a kid.

Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

I realize that I want something more. Success is great, but then you also wake up in your hotel room at four in the morning and you're like, wouldn't it be nice to have someone here with me.

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

I know that all good things must come to an end and I've had an incredible ride. I just want to end it on the right note.

Playing in sold out arenas several nights a week is something I have never experience before. I want to experience that. I want to experience that in my first year and build on that.

I think we've put ourselves in a position that if we can go into the Big East and compete at the level that we aspire to compete at, we'll get out of this what we want.

One little secret of the guys who have won one slam, is that we don't want other guys to win one because its like a bit of a special fraternity.

I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.

I really don't drink, I don't do drugs. I feel like right now I've been given so many opportunities I don't want to mess it up with those things.

I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.

Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.

I love Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman - those are the careers I want. My goal is to win an Oscar, and I'm going to take the steps to get there.

Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver

I think that most Americans don't resent people for getting rich. They want to get rich themselves.

I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn't active enough for me.

It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want.

To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it."

Runners...you're competitive, but you want to have fun, too. You want to enjoy life. And runners really get to do that, I think-after we recover.

As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.

My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that.

'America's Got Talent' has really opened a lot of doors for me. I want to do a lot more TV.

It's the nature of it. The players will want to compete at the highest level they possibly can.

Would it be nice to win a film award one day? Yes. But the critics are going to have to wait till I'm ready. Right now, my gift is making big movies that audiences want to see.