Quotes About Achievement

Rose once jotted down a quotation she attributed to her mother: "I don't know which is more heartbreaking, a dream un[ful]filled or a dream realized.

Some good shit happens fast (a bestselling book), and some good shit happens slow (love).

This is your success and this is the magic hour, the golden time before the time. Just be in it. You earned it. Don't spread it and don't pull on it and don't push it and don't share it and don't examine it. This is it.

He is ten feet away from the wire and his eyes are on the prize and he lifts his arms up in a V—ten feet turns into two feet—and he unclips his helmet—two feet turns into ten inches—and

being recognized, women

One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

The most important lesson I've learned is that first you have to dream, and then you have to believe in your dreams. That is the only way for them to come true.

fine enough, but getting there is no pleasure." She stood with her hands

I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated ' because I've always been skinny.

Your only job is creating a life that contains a story worth telling.

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It's better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.

The thing about having it all is, it should include having the ability to have it all. Maybe there are some people who know how to have it all. They're probably off in a group somewhere, laughing at those of us who have it all but don't know how to.

I highly recommend your doing: find an equivalent of killing a giant space slug in your head and celebrate that.

I make them bald, I turn them gay, my work is done!

I think you get the picture. [1976] was a year that like all years, a lot of things happened in. People were on TV or in movies, they wrote songs that were liked more than other songs, while other people excelled at sports, and, as always, a lot of accomplished and famous people died.

She liked going to the gym, or rather, she liked having been to the gym, and the only way to have been was to go.

If you hanker after accomplishment, you will aspect raw eggs and faultfinders.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.'

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses