Quotes About Achievement

One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.

We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Glory can be safely despised by those only who have fairly won it.

Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring to the highest ascent.

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100%.

Don't sulk. For someone with all the grace and coordination of a pregnant wildebeest, you did great.

I can stand." "It looks to me like you're using a wall to prop you up. that's not my definition of 'standing.'" "Its leaning," Jace told him. "Leaning comes right before standing.

I'm boasting of my...skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption.

One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.

It really was getting difficult to be wonderful.

Mark held up his plastic bag. Inside it, a small orange fish swam around in a circle. "This is the best patrol we've ever done," he said. "I have never been awarded a fish before.

He'd probably been born with abs. Some were born with abs, some achieved abs, and some - like Simon - had abs thrust upon them by cruel instructors.

I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an 'Iron Chef ' actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!

After you have done your work—challenging as it may have been to complete—and released it in the marketplace, be not concerned with sales, reviews, critical acclaim, or anything else of the like... After you've written and published a book, you're now an AUTHOR. And that great honor can NEVER be taken away from you, no matter what.

I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.

Then what's the point of trying if you can't even win?" "You win in lots of different ways," Asher said. "Lots of little wins. The point of this life is not to be good all the time. It's to be as good as you can. No one is perfect. No one does it right all the time. That's not what life is.

Focus and move forward.

I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique

All my life I've plotted and planned, been obsessed with those things. And now you've achieved them. You are not satisfied. He nodded. Life is a series of stairs of which we climb, Claudia... your horizons have moved.

You can't think about how much you have left to do because that's just one thought, one sad thought, that'll make you bummed out all day long. Instead you've got to think about how much you've already done.