Quotes About Achievement

You see people say: 'He should go back to baseball. He should do this; he should do that.' Those are people who said I would never even make it here. There's always another hurdle to go over, and it's fun to use that as motivation.

You have to make it happen.

The more we do, the more we can do.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Competition among schools is always a great motivator.

I don't feel I'm in competition with anyone. My sense is of it being like school: I don't want to beat anyone but I don't want to get left behind. That's a great motivator. I like impressing my friends.

Henry Cejudo is a motivator.

When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it's envy and jealousy.

Do I think anything I ever do will be as big as Motley Crue? It's impossible.

Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.

To climb into an airplane and motor up by yourself, it is just amazing.

Education was the motor that allowed me to make my way up the ladder.

I've been fortunate enough that in every form of motor sports in which I've competed, we've won.

I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.

I was one of those late bloomers when it comes to motorcycles. I didn't get my motorcycle license until I was 25.

I thought wasn't nobody supposed to get gold records except those people on Motown, like Smokey Robinson and Diana Ross.

I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.

Those who disdain wealth as a worthy goal for an individual or a society seem not to realize that wealth is the only thing that can prevent poverty.

La competencia ha sido y será siempre problemática para aquellos que tienen que competir. FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and only uses half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men will know. - Thomas Wolfe

Conspicuous abstention from labour therefore becomes the conventional mark of superior pecuniary achievement and the conventional index of reputability; and conversely, since application to productive labour is a mark of poverty and subjection, it becomes inconsistent with a reputable standing in the community.

If one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it. -p162

if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!