Quotes About Achievement

Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that's in us.

Men fight wars. Women win them.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

Donald Trump just has always elevated women to the highest echelons.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.

Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while

I don't need easy, I just need possible.

Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.

You know, I've held women and babies and jewels and money, but nothing will ever feel as good as holding that Cup.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind.

When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely healthy man!

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Well, I had just completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better.

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

Successful people understand that you don't need to make things complicated.

Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.

I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.