Quotes About Achievement

If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'

Getting and becoming are siamese twins. If you want more than you have, you have to become more than you are.

You've got to destroy a few lives on the way to where you want to get.

Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.

The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.

To having no self esteem to feeling wonderful about yourself doing what you love to do and making the money that you want to be making. That is my contribution to humanity.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.

You go to school to figure out who you want to be and how you can do it, and [maybe] I should have, because the films would probably be technically better.

Entertainment is like any other major industry; it's cold, big business. The business end wants to know one thing: Can you do the job? If you can, you're in, you're made; if you can't, you're out.

Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.

I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that's written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes along that's good, and I want to do it.

Shirley MacLaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.

Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get.

It's so funny, all the similarities that we have [with David Copperfield] of being obsessed young people and finding a way to be around the people doing what we want to do.

I have to make good things so good comedians want to talk to me.

Next time you want to quit, think who you want to be. Quitters never win.

I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to.

Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.

People want fame and I would never tell a person to not want that, because it's f--ing awesome. Actually.

Let's be honest: I just want a Super Bowl ring.

I'm proud of my kids, they are doing what they want to do.

I want more from David Beckham. I want him to improve on perfection.