Quotes About Achievement

When you are 31 years, 7 months, 9 hours, 4 minutes, and 20 seconds old, you've lived your billionth second.

The best colleges admit only successful students, offering no evidence the college itself forged the students' late success.

I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.

We are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. If you are successful, it would be wrong to think that you'd be more successful if something had been easier.

twenty-four astronauts hail from the swing state of Ohio—more than from any other state—including John Glenn (America's first to orbit Earth) and Neil Armstrong (the world's first to walk on the Moon).

The Olympics owes its existence to the search for people who perform faster, higher, and stronger among us. Standardized exams, game shows, beauty contests, talent auditions, and the Forbes 400 all pit humans against humans, in rank order. Society offers hundreds, if not thousands of ways to show you're better than others.

The scientific method, which underpins these achievements, is often conveyed with formal terms that reference induction, deduction, hypothesis, and experiment. But it can be summarized in one sentence, which is all about objectivity: Do whatever it takes to avoid fooling yourself into believing that something is true when it is false, or that something is false when it is true.

On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more.

From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.

STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book? RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what was at the top.You know what was there? STRAUSS: No, I don't. RICHIE: Nothing. Not one thing. What was at the top was all the experiences that you had to get there.

God is on the side of the winner.

He asked her what she was famous for—everybody's famous for something

If you're not being criticized, you're probably not doing anything exceptional.

To win the game was to leave

In his book The Sensation of Being Somebody, Maurice Wagner wrote: Try as we might by our appearance, performance or social status to find self-verification for a sense of being somebody, we always come short of satisfaction. Whatever pinnacle of self-identity we achieve soon crumbles

It wasn't the degree that counted but what you did with it; he believed that too many Americans wasted time and money on college simply for the sake of a fancy piece of paper.

do. As a wise man (me) once said, "The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

From a squalid izba to a space capsule—log cabin to the stars. You have to give these people credit where it's due.

Second place is just the first loser.

It occurred to me that the problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

The guy did okay for himself.

You may be able to write a novel, you may not . You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.

In most history, success is over-represented, for the victors out-write the losers. In the history of networks, the opposite often applies. Successful networks evade public attention; unsuccessful ones attract it, and it is their notoriety, rather than their achievement, that leads to their over-representation.