Quotes About Achievement

I find people to be people everywhere. Everyone wants the same thing - be successful.

If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.

As a future goal, I just want to be one of those guys that is known.

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

My success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.

The Champions League is a big ambition and all the footballers want to play in it. It is a very important competition.

... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve your goals, you have to sacrifice some things.

Personal power is not the end of the process. It is a tool that you use to get someplace. The purpose of the car is not to live in the car, it is to drive you someplace you want to go.

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

None to witness. Dust of dreams, dust of all that we never achieved. Dust of what we might have been and what we cannot help but be.

Names are not for the asking, mortal. Names are earned.

A single regret could crush a thousand proud deeds

Victory tastes sweetest in the absence of haunting memories, Bult. Savor it.

Importance lies solely in the deeds done, the goals achieved. Time is preparation, nothing more. One prepares for as long as is required.

In success we shall find seeds of despair

A releasing of said tension, a dying of the sparks. I now fear getting depressed." "The risk of achieving what you wish for.

I dwelt a long time in the House of Death, tormented by the truth that I failed to achieve what I most wanted in my life. That sense, of terrible incompleteness, overwhelmed me many times. But now I stand with you, my brother, and I will fall in your stead if I can in this battle to come. Oblivion does not frighten me – I see only its blessed release.

your mind, it would seem, these are but titles. Responsibilities one grows into, as it were. But the truth of it is, the title awaits only those who have already grown into a person worthy of the responsibility.

In that Malazan Book of the Fallen, the historians will write of our suffering, and they will speak of it as the suffering of those who served the Crippled God. As something…fitting. And for our seeming fanaticism they will dismiss all that we were, and think only of what we achieved. Or failed to achieve. And in so doing, they will miss the whole fucking point. Fallen One, we are all your children.

Halston listened to her thoughtfully, smoking a cigarette, and when Liza was finished with her lament, he said softly, "Gee, I think about my life, and I've just had a wonderful life. Always. I was always a success. I've always had the best workers. I've always had the nicest friends. I always had everything I wanted.' He smiled his perfect smile at her. 'I've had a great life,' he said.

Let's not have any regrets when we walk off that field at the end of tonight,

He did what he could, and that was more than enough.

Two Arts degrees does not a life make.