Quotes About Achievement

I've always had such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!

Unless in one thing or another we are straining toward perfection, we have forfeited our manhood.

I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a little girl. I want to rule the world.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high, as too low.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Great is the road I climb, but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.

Man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?

You have to erect a fence and say, "Okay, scale this."

The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.

If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life discerns his object and toward that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

The heights by men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.