Quotes About Achievement

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

Rome was not built in a day.

As both the Mercury and Apollo programs have shown, our science and technology are so powerful that, if an intense effort is made, we can do almost anything we want in say, ten years - provided we are not in conflict with the laws of nature.

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving ... if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre.

In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

A sobering thought: what if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

May God ... let me strive for attainable things.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Success doesn't necessarily make you a happy person ... but without the confidence and security that comes from being totally happy, I believe you cannot achieve your true potential and ultimate success.

The surest sign of fitness is success.

Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.

No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.

I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

Under normal periods, any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making excuses, that's the day you start your move to the top.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.