Quotes About Achievement

It's the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without a plane.

Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.

For one brief moment victory was within our grasp!" "And then the game started!

I enjoy looking at your face... Whenever I look at your face, a question always comes to my mind... Will man ever succeed in reaching the moon?

Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything.

Oh yes, I'm at my happiest when I have a good idea and I'm drawing it well, and it comes out well and somebody laughs at it.

Marcie mi sta facendo un costume, Snoopy. Adesso è solo questione che io e te ci occupiamo del mio pattinaggio in modo che possa far bene nella gara... Come sono le mie figure? BLEAH!! Non sei un grande addolcitore di pillole, vero?

The man who has done his best has done everything.

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

No matter how hard you try, You can't build a rainman.

It's about the realization of talent and potential, and the feeling that you are able to make the most of your abilities in life.

Perhaps only one who leads a political party in the British Parliamentary system can fully appreciate the magnitude of your victory and the skill required to achieve it,' wrote Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister of Canada.12

Here's the secret you should remember whenever you hear someone lamenting how tough it is to get ahead in the postindustrial global economy: Few people work nearly as hard as they could. The few who do have it made.

PURPOSE A major stream of human accomplishment is fostered by a culture in which the most talented people believe that life has a purpose and that the function of life is to fulfill that purpose.

The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.

A major stream of human accomplishment is fostered by a culture that encourages the belief that individuals can act efficaciously as individuals, and enables them to do so.

Page 46: Our picture suggests that for every person within the ranks of college graduates, there is another among those without a college degree who has just as high an IQ—or at least almost. And as for the graduates of the dozen top schools, … they too are apparently outnumbered by people with similar IQs who do not graduate from those colleges, or do not graduate from college at all.

People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned -- it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned -- and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.

Taking the trouble out of life strips people of major ways in which human beings look back on their lives and say, "I made a difference.

You should of got a medal." "You don't get medals for things like that. Unless you're a officer. They give 'em to each other.

What have you done when you have bested a fool?

The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble.

To hit the moon, you often have to aim for the sun.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.