Quotes About Achievement

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

You have given them an ideal to aspire to, embodied their highest aspirations. They will race, and stumble, and fall and crawl....and curse....and finally.... They will join you in the sun, Kal-El. They will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun. In time you will help them accomplish wonders.

Failure isn't bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

We must understand that childbirth is fundamentally a spiritual, as well as a physical, achievement. The birth of a child is the ultimate perfection of human love.

Either dance well or quit the ballroom.

One thing we can easily predict is that anything worth accomplishing will take time, and the bigger our goals are, the more time they will take.

The road to rock and roll Heaven is paved by the bleached skulls of guys like me. I had no idea such things were nearly impossible.

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

Do not ever give up trying - because eventually you will win." Judge Greg Mathis

But what you're trying to do is much more difficult than climbing K2

When your kids accomplish something it means much more than anything you've done.

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.

The aforementioned "active stick"—besides being an essential achievement in the Eddie Olczyk NBC broadcaster drinking game—describes what the defenseman needs to do with his twig when taking on an attacker. It should always be on the ice, always in motion, always seeking to be as close to the shooter's blade as possible.

Which matters more? The works I've done or the life I lead?" The minister was right. The words felt different in Evan's body and behind his face. "You assume they're different," the minister said. "One's works and one's life.

When you're at a wall, start climbing.

If everything we do and create is done to the best of our ability, then until we compare it to something else, how can it be anything less than great?

Envision someone else, someone better than you. Stronger. Smarter. Tougher. Then do what that guy would do.

Why are you so committed to him?" "BECAUSE HE SUCCEEDS," Wotan boomed, causing Travers to jump back in her chair.

The ones that test the limits sometimes do the most amazing things in life. That's what I've always thought.

When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.

Another irony is that the achievement of mass affluence in much of the world--the decline in child mortality, the extension of adult life spans, and the reduction in inequality--have not made us any happier than our hunter-gatherer forebears.

The soul of alpinism is to travel light and fast through a dangerous landscape in pursuit of a personal star. That is ascent.

Project management is simply the process of managing projects (and you thought this was going to be difficult).