Quotes About Achievement

Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to.

Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.

Every other start-up wants to be another United or Delta or American. We just want to get rich.

How competitive am I? A healthy amount. I have four siblings. It was competitive just eating dinner, like, "Everyone, get what you want from the chicken." Plus competing for your parents' attention.

I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.

The pioneers take the arrows. And when you're at the top everybody is gunning for what you have and what you want, and that's just part of the territory.

I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.

It's very Canadian of me - or maybe it's more the Catholic schoolgirl in me - but I always really want to do a good job.

Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

Think about how much it costs to learn more. Sometimes you want to build confidence by knocking off the easy things.

I was about 14, and my friend's stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son - who was more into basketball - didn't want to. It was amazing, and I still remember the time I got: 48:23.

At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it's going to be your last one.

I'm one year older, one year sexier - one more, baby. For me, it's all about the bigger picture. We want to win the whole thing. We've got to beat whoever is in our way.

I approach the heptathlon and life in the same way in that I not only want to be good at what I am doing, but I want it to mean something.

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

Everybody wants to win.

I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age.

Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.

Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.

When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.

Ive been taught very early on that if you want to win a tournament youve got to beat anybody, and hopefully I play well and enjoy it.

Ill never be as good an actor as I want to be....but I'll be good.

I really believe I know why my designs were better than any other human being, but I don't want to take credit for starting Apple, for turning the world around or anything like that.

All young men want to prove themselves.