Quotes About Achievement

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Big-time players make big-time plays in big-time spots. That's who I want to be.

Everything you want is on the other side of hard.

There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.

I think there's no limit to ambition, and if you want something, you can make anything happen, so go for it.

There is never going to be an end point. But definitely, I am happy to complete a certain part of my journey, and that's something I want to celebrate.

If you want to be the best, you've got the beat the best, and the best is 'Blessed,' baby.

I want to crush everyone. I want to outsmart everyone.

You want to get to the top of the cliff. But that's not what you focus on immediately. You focus on the next ledge just beyond your reach, because you need to do one clever thing to get up there. And then, once you get there, you do it again. A lot of this is rather boring and not very glamorous. But you can't jump cliffs in a single bound.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

I want people to see that there are happy endings, that we do achieve our goals, that it's never too late.

I want to keep doing what I'm doing and see how far I can go. See when it stops. See what the end is like. I want to make this moment last as long as I can make it. If I miss a day, I'm afraid I'll miss out on a smash record.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.

When you make movies, it's such an important period of time, when you look back at each one of them. You want to be able to say that you did something that was a challenge and that changed you.

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

Who would have thought it would be possible to run across Canada on one leg, eh? I wanted to try the impossible and show that it could be done.

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

Make more than the guys you thought you wanted to be with.

In my previous profession, when I was a producer, scriptwriter and actor, I wanted to get an Oscar, I wanted to be popular in the U.S.A.

All I want to do is make my mother incredibly proud. That's all I've ever wanted to do.