Quotes About Achievement

It doesn't matter who stands in front of me, I've got to find a way to go out there and win.

I hit a home run in my first game, and they told me to go into the stands and pass my cap around. I made six dollars in nickels, dimes, and quarters.

I think if you score lots of goals but nobody likes you as a person then it stands for nothing.

Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

Coming back in that AFC Championship Game against the Steelers, that was a poignant moment for me for a lot of reasons - the magnitude of the game and having not been able to play for quite a while and to be able to get on the field for that game. That one stands out.

Only one champion stands at the end of the year, so just making the playoffs isn't enough.

Israel stands proudly at the forefront of international achievement. The world's leading corporations - Google, Intel and Motorola, to name but a few - maintain research and development facilities here, and our technology start-ups continue to be acquired by the likes of AOL, eBay and IBM.

The thing that really stands out is that my parents taught me right from the start, if you want something in life, you need to work for it.

After 'A Love Extreme,' I thought I must do something that stands up to that - at least. I can't top it. You should never attempt to top something that is magical, because that's just bad magic.

Your name never stands for anything, only performances do.

Everyone needs an objective, and everyone needs a goal, and it was frustrating just kind of being at a standstill.

If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

The man who goes on, even when it's the hardest to be the winner.

I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

I've become quite a serious explorer: I've been to Everest three times; I'm the oldest man to reach the North Pole; and I've just been to the lost world of Venezuela.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

God has given me a life far beyond anything I ever dreamed about. God is, man, God is something else man.