Quotes About Achievement

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

Successful people who cannot express themselves well? I can't think of one.

twould appear that if Fred Lemish spent half as much time writing as he did hoping Dinky Adams would say "I love you," he'd have a ten-foot shelf. And if Dinky Adams spent half as much time legitimately planting and fertilizing as he did scattering his seeds to the winds, he'd be New York's leading gardener. Though, of course, as we shall continue to see, he already is.

But success and failure reveal nothing about our spirituality.

We take too much credit when the walls of Jericho cave in and too much blame when our Ai's can't be conquered.

No one ever wrote down a plan to be fat, broke, stupid, lazy, unhappy, and mediocre. Those are the things that happen to you when you don't have a plan.

What it takes that most people aren't willing to give is work. Hard work. Work on yourself, work on your life, and working while you are at work.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

I think if you find your passion and you go with it you are rewarded.

When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being a detective, like Encyclopedia Brown. Being a researcher is a way I've achieved that dream ... without the danger.

People felt sorry for me that I don't get a medal. I said, "Hey, I got my medal when I saw them put the medal around our players." I said, "I got my medal when they raised that American flag, and I got my medal when they played our national anthem." You know, I cried. I cried because I know that I had done something for my country.

I wasn't quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one day.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

Thou wishest fame! ambition in thy soul Bids thee toil onward to the distant goal, And holds the dazzling prize before the view, Fought for by many; gained by ah, how few!

Para eso sirven los sueños, ¿no? Para enseñarnos hasta donde podemos llegar.

She was well aware that some people—particularly the older guys—thought she'd only been promoted to detective because she was a woman. It was possible they were right. But she'd worked her ass off, too.

A smile spread across her face. "Score one for the rookie detective." Her

I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.

Each of his workouts was attended by ten thousand or more spectators.

The autos alone remained to conquer space.

To expand his lung capacity, he ran to the public pool at Redondo Beach, dove to the bottom, grabbed the drain plug, and just floated there, hanging on a little longer each time. Eventually, he could stay underwater for three minutes and forty-five seconds. People kept jumping in to save him.

A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory

Pete urged Louie to enter the Compton Open and try his legs at a longer distance. "If you stay with Norman Bright," he told Louie, "you make the Olympic team.

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.