Quotes About Achievement

Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

When I recieved the Padmabhushan it was a happy moment no doubt, but it was not something I sought desperately to win. I never worked towards the award.

Gene Kelly was one of the greatest dancers of all time and a taskmaster. He sought from you the absolute best - and he got it.

My education, drive, and commitment have afforded me every opportunity I have ever sought.

I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

May these happy United States attain that complete splendour and prosperity which will illustrate the blessings of their government, and for ages to come rejoice the departed souls of their founders!

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

It's important to have a sound idea, but the really important thing is the implementation.

I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine.

You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

I don't I don't really care what people expect me to do at these Games. It's all about me. It might sound a little selfish, but it's what I want to accomplish and reaching my potential. Everything else, everybody else's opinion, they can kick rocks.

I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.

I'm the lucky one who got asked to do 'The Sound of Music' and all the other lovely things that I did.

You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more.

It sounds like I work at Hallmark, but every day is a journey and you get better and that's the whole point of life.

I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial.

Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet.

I've been acting for a long time now, but as narcissistic as this sounds - and I don't mean it to sound - every time I see my name up there, there is real sense of pride.

It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.

The Saina Nehwal film's soundtrack is one of the most prestigious and powerful scores I have worked on.

I've always wanted to work with Barbra Streisand because she's worked with some of the best background singers in the world who are friends of mine, worked with them in concert or on movie soundtracks, and I always say 'Now, where was I? Where was I when she was hiring people to work with her?'