Quotes About Achievement

I feel so proud of everything I have achieved and it is lovely that my soundtracks take people back to their first love or holiday.

Winning the Absa Cape Epic was the base for the perfect season. It really spiced up the soup.

I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.

Then again, my case was all about the misappropriation of source code because I wanted to become the best hacker in the world and I enjoyed beating the security mechanisms.

I got to direct a human interest sports drama - to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and a source of undying pride.

I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.

The first Chipotle was intended to be my source of funding for a full-scale restaurant, a means to an end. But it turned out to be more successful than I ever imagined.

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement.

Being a South Indian from Paramakudi, I know I wouldn't be considered for awards many times.

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978.

I've never been bothered about being the highest wicket-taker in the world or the best South African bowler in the world.

In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.

I'm the first South Asian woman to be elected to the House of Representatives.

One minute I was a PR intern, the next I was Miss South Africa.

It's enough to play for South Africa and take wickets for South Africa, and then I managed to get 400. I never thought that that would happen.

To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.

My biggest ambition, ever since I was a boy in Pakistan, has been to play cricket at the highest level. If I can do so for South Africa, I'll give everything.

Moving to South Africa and trying to make a mark as a cricketer and then make it to the international team hasn't been easy. This is why I want to enjoy every moment of it.

We have to win everything. The last time we went to South Africa, we had an opportunity to win the series, but things didn't work out.

I always dreamt that, but I never thought I will be here one day playing my 100th game for South Africa. It's an absolute honour and privilege, being given the opportunity by the lovely people from South Africa.