Quotes About Achievement

Patton hated and dreaded mediocrity. A few days before his death he wrote to Robert P. Patterson, who had succeeded Mr. Stimson as Secretary of War: "Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition." He

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

I always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better, I could make more effort and I always have the feeling that there is a glass wall that I cannot get through. But maybe when I get through, then it's over.

Think big. Make a plan and stick to it, and you can do anything you want to do.

shrestha (SHRES·thuh) noun When a dream comes true—but not for the dreamer. Archaic;

And they hooked their fingers around its slender spurs, and pulled.

Let's not forget gold. Kings wanted it. Alchemists promised it —had been promising it for centuries–, and if they achieved purity and perfection in anything, it was the purity and perfection of their failure to produce it.

?yczenia nie spe?niaj? si? ot tak. To tylko kó?eczka, które malujesz wokó? tego, czego pragniesz. Trafi? do celu musisz ju? sama.

You are filthy with your victory.

Shresta: When a dream comes true - but not for the dreamer.

For some of these kids, the fact that they make it to school every day is an accomplishment.

I'd rather take a beating sometimes than get in that gym every morning. Anyone who gets up that early and says he likes it is a goddamned liar. The only good thing about it is that when I'm finished, I look at myself in the mirror and say, "Jack, you've done it again!"

Don't talk age! Age has nothing to do with it. One of my guys who started out at my gym is 87 now, and he still does ten bench-press reps with a hundred-pound dumbbell in each hand. He's training to set a leg-pressing record. I put things in the guy's brain way back when, and now he'll never get away from it.

Anything in life is possible if you make it happen.

Ask the guys who are doing serious triathlons if there are any limits to what can be done. The limit is right here. You've got to get physically fit between the ears. Muscles don't know anything. They have to be taught.

There is nothing more satisfying than having plans.

He completed the universe, he achieved the physical unity of the globe.

Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams--what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred--I stepped onto the hallowed ground of being a published novelist, and then, fifteen years later, I started to make real money.

I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so long--discovering it was merely metal, wrapped in cloth. It wasn't alive; it had no spirit. It was fake.

What ever your 100% looks like, give it.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

Life, to me, is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits on a bike.