Quotes About Achievement

The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance.

There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it.

Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

Women don't want to win, they want a winner.

I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I obviously had a great sense of vision. And I was right.

Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.

The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could.

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

My mustrious lordship, i'll show you what a woman can do

Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.

Most women who have done something with their lives have been disliked by almost everyone.

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.

Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.

Women have never been as interesting as they are now. Not at any time on this planet have women been so educated, so interesting, so capable.

McLaren started as the dream of one man, and it's since grown to encompass the hopes and dreams of more than 2000 men and women.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best - which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.